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January 4, 2024
Construction Firms Have Mixed Outlook For 2024 As Expectations For Demand Remain Mostly Positive, But Less Upbeat Than Last Year Amid New Challenges New Industry Outlook Shows Firms Are Counting on Public Sector, Data Center and Manufacturing Construction to Offset Declines in Retail, Lodging… Read More

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced July 1 that more than $2.7 billion of the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 is being made available early to help states as they face increasing budgetary pressures. According to the… Read More
July 24, 2009
Left: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (left), Ways and Means Committee member, talks with Don Weaver (right) after the hearing. AGC Highway and Transportation Division Chairman Don Weaver, Weaver Bailey Contractors (El Paso, Ark.), testified before the House Ways and Means Committee asking for action… Read More
July 23, 2009
The massive $1.5 trillion health care overhaul currently meandering through Congress is going through five committees (three in the House and two in the Senate). So far two House committees and one Senate committee have finished their consideration of the bill. Based on AGC's analysis of the parts… Read More
July 23, 2009
Trey Pebley, Vice President of McAllen Construction, Inc., of McAllen, Texas, testified Wednesday before the House Small Business Committee on the impact of federal regulation over water and wetlands on small businesses and family farmers.The Committee conducted the hearing to gather testimony on… Read More
July 23, 2009
On July 16th the New York Times reported on a potential compromise on the “so-called†Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The real story behind the story is that one unnamed senator among six that are working on a compromise leaked to the Times that they will likely drop the card-check portion of… Read More
July 23, 2009
Guidance does not include mandate to use PLAs On July 14, 2009, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued a notice of proposed rulemaking implementing President Obamaâ€TMs Executive Order 13502, by creating new FAR contract clauses to be included in Federal contracts should an agency… Read More
July 23, 2009
Key Senate staff has indicated that S. 1005, the Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2009, could be up for a vote for the full Senateâ€TMs consideration as early as next week. S.1005 authorizes $39.191 billion for EPA water infrastructure programs over the next five years, including: $20 billion… Read More
July 23, 2009
AGC Highway and Transportation Division Chairman Don Weaver, Weaver Bailey Contractors (El Paso, Ark.), testified today before the House Ways and Means Committee asking for action to ensure that the Highway Trust Fund has sufficient revenue to reimburse states for on-going construction contracts… Read More
July 23, 2009
The Senate Banking and Commerce Committees have joined the Environment and Public Works Committee in approving legislation to extend highway and transit program spending authorization through March 2011. Still to act is the Finance Committee, which must provide the revenue needed to keep the… Read More
July 23, 2009
This week, over 125 contractors traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the 2009 AGC Safety and Health Committee Meeting.  In addition to the networking opportunities and forums with federal agencies, attendees received updates on legislative issues that directly affect the safety and health… Read More
July 23, 2009