Hard Facts

We Have a Surface Bill!

Episode Summary

It’s been a little more than a week since the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee delivered America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019, putting down a marker for spending and staking out positions on several policy issues, including resiliency.

Episode Notes

It’s been a little more than a week since the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee delivered on a promise to unveil and pass America’s first look at the next national surface transportation reauthorization bill.

The bill, America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019, puts down a marker for spending and stakes out positions on several policy issues, including resiliency.

Rachel Derby, Vice President of Government Affairs for the Portland Cement Association (PCA), and James O’Keefe, a former EPW committee staffer who now advises PCA and others on federal policy and legislative issues, visit the Hard Facts studio to give their view of the new legislation.