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AGC-Backed Provision Restricting Transportation Department Pilot Program Remains
With Senate action already finished, the House Appropriations Committee this week approved the FY 2017 transportation appropriations bill. Both versions of the legislation maintain the funding levels set in the 2015… Read More
June 28, 2016
This week, 132 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Ranking Democrat Sander Levin (Mich.) in support of fixing the Highway Trust Fund as part of comprehensive tax reform. Thanks to the AGC members who met… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC Outlines Concerns of Construction Industry in Letter
This week, AGC delivered a letter to the House Education and the Workforce Committee for a hearing that examined the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) rule on Improved Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses. AGC… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC Supports Sensible Fiscal Reform for Path Forward
On May 25, the House Natural Resources Committee passed legislation that with sensible fiscal reforms—and no taxpayer dollars for a bailout—to address the financial crisis in Puerto Rico. The AGC-backed bill would create a debt-restructuring… Read More
June 28, 2016
On May 24, AGC objected to the Department of Defense’s proposed change to the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (DFARS) that would prohibit the use of any cost-plus system of contracting for military construction and military family housing projects governed under Title 10 of the U.S. Code.… Read More
June 28, 2016
On May 25, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved an AGC-supported $5 billion Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which authorizes new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works construction projects, including locks, dams, levees, harbor maintenance dredging and… Read More
June 28, 2016
Potential to Unlock Billions in New Construction
On May 23, the House unanimously approved two AGC-supported bills – The Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act, H.R. 4487, and the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act, H.R. 4465 – that would encourage federal agencies to dispose of, consolidate,… Read More
June 28, 2016
On May 17, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously approved AGC-supported legislation that would (1) require civilian federal agencies—non-Department of Defense agencies—to utilize the two-step design-build selection process for design-build projects greater than $3 million… Read More
June 28, 2016
On May 16, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued an AGC-supported final rule that effectively limits the second-step (“short-list”) of the two-step design-build procurement process to no more than five teams. Through AGC’s efforts, this reform was passed by Congress in 2014. For… Read More
June 28, 2016
In what may be a 12-round bout, AGC has scored another victory on the path to expunging President Obama’s Blacklisting Executive Order. On May 19, the House of Representatives approved legislation that includes an AGC-backed provision to the National Defense Authorization Act—a bill that has been… Read More
June 28, 2016
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