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By Jessica Wehrman, CQ-Roll Call WASHINGTON — In the months after her sister and brother-in-law and their three children died in a January 2019 crash caused by a drunken driver, Rana Abbas Taylor, consumed by grief, traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk to lawmakers about her loss. In the midst of t
WASHINGTON — In the months after her sister and brother-in-law and their three children died in a January 2019 crash caused by a drunken driver, Rana Abbas Taylor, consumed by grief, traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk to lawmakers about her loss.
by Jeremy Lott Print this article On July 9, President Joe Biden signed the "Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy." In a fact sheet accompanying that order, the White House claimed that it "established a whole-of-government effort to promote competition in the American economy, includ[ing] 72 initiatives by more than a dozen federal agencies to promptly tackle some of the most pressing competition problems across our economy." These efforts would do several things for people, including make it "easier to change jobs and help raise wages … Lower pre...
Here’s how U.S. infrastructure compares to the rest of the world Ian Duncan © Matt Rourke/AP A Port Authority Transit Corporation train travels across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in view of City Hall in Philadelphia last week. (AP/Matt Rourke) The White House has framed investments in infrastructure as a matter of ensuring the nation’s global competitiveness, highlighting in its $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan how the nation’s economy is the world’s largest — and yet its infrastructure ranks No. 13. Addressing Congress this week, President Biden said the nati...
by Jeremy Lott Print this article 'There's a logic to starting with trucks, given the technology involved and that truckers already deal with interstate and international fuel tax issues, but politically, it would be a disaster to single them out first.' Do a slim majority of people now support a vehicle miles traveled tax? That is one takeaway from the Mineta Transportation Institute's 12th annual survey of taxation and transportation. The California-based think tank didn't call it a VMT tax for the survey, released in late March. Instead, it called it a gr...