Tag: congress

March 25, 2024

Congress has approved, and President Joe Biden has signed, an estimated $1.2-trillion spending package that includes funding for several construction and infrastructure programs, such as federal buildings and embassy construction. Biden signed the measure on March 23. Final congressional approval […]

July 28, 2022

U.S. lawmakers voted to send a bill to President Joe Biden that would authorize, as part of $280 billion in spending, $52 billion to boost semiconductor chip manufacturing, including $39 billion toward construction of chip plants. The vote alleviated chipmakers’ […]

October 4, 2021

Congress has approved legislation that ends a short lapse in surface transportation funding and extends federal highway and transit program authorizations—but only through Oct. 31. President Joe Biden signed the stopgap on Oct. 2, reauthorizing those key transportation programs for […]

September 30, 2021

With a deadline looming, Congress Sept. 30 approved a spending package that temporarily averted a shutdown of most federal agencies, including many construction programs, and provides nearly $29 billion in emergency funds to help states recover and rebuild after Hurricane […]

September 14, 2021

Congress directed close to $200 billion to state and local education agencies in 2020 and 2021 to help reopen schools battered by COVID-19 through the ARP. The plan, signed into law by President Joe Biden in March, directly addresses pandemic-related […]

August 4, 2021

Much of the debate around raising taxes to pay for President Joe Biden’s proposed infrastructure, social and environmental programs has focused on how much corporations and wealthy individuals actually pay. For instance, a Construction Dive analysis revealed that publicly traded […]

July 6, 2021

The U.S. General Services Administration has appointed Nina M. Albert, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s former top real estate official, as commissioner of GSA’s Public Buildings Service, a key federal construction agency. PBS is responsible for the design and […]

September 13, 2018

As airport authorities develop capital programs to expand and modernize their facilities, they’re also faced with how to pay for these initiatives. The Federal Aviation Administration provides money for some infrastructure improvements, but not on the scale of the hundreds […]

January 3, 2018

Construction companies should brace for change. The 30-plus-year drought since the last tax code overhaul may be finally over as Congress sets out to vote on and place a now-finalized tax bill on President Donald Trump’s desk. The bill slashes the corporate […]