By John Drake
Infrastructure Week is here, and with it comes the “unofficial” start by Congress to write the next surface transportation and infrastructure law.
With so much attention by lawmakers—and the public—on budget reconciliation, it’s easy to forget that Congress is already hard at work on a new surface transportation and infrastructure law. This law will follow the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—the largest federal investment in American infrastructure in half a century—and already States and other transportation stakeholders are anxiously tracking the fate of potentially hundreds of billions of dollars for our nation’s roads, bridges, railways, transit systems, and ports as well as the future of the laws that govern the movement of our cars, trucks, railroads, and buses.
This blog has been sourced from the official website of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and can be accessed here