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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More

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AGC Tells Congress about its FY 2016 Funding Priorities
Congress Drafting an End-of-Year Funding Bill Last week, AGC sent a letter to congressional leaders and members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees detailing the construction industry’s priorities for the fiscal year 2016 funding bill.  In the letter, AGC urges appropriators to… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Responds to IRS Section 199 Comment Period
Last week, AGC submitted a comment letter in response the IRS Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking issued in August on proposed amendments to regulations involving the domestic production activities deduction under Section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, the comments addressed the… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Meets on Extenders as Rumors Abound
Visit AGC’s Action Center to Urge Congress to Support Renewal of AGC-Supported Extenders As of publication time, a deal to extend the 50 plus tax provisions that expired at the end of 2014 remained in flux, with few details available coming from the lead congressional negotiators. AGC has had a… Read More
February 4, 2016
Administration Releases Regulatory Plan for 2016
Regulatory Onslaught on Your Construction Company Will Continue Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, the administration released the semiannual Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which includes a timelines for all federal agency rulemaking processes planed and underway,… Read More
February 4, 2016
Transportation Bill Conference Committee Begins
Contact your Congressmen and Tell Them to Support a Long-Term Bill This week, select members of the House and Senate –called conferees – began negotiations on resolving the differences between the two chambers’ long-term highway & transit bills.  However, with funding levels and duration… Read More
February 4, 2016
OSHA Civil Penalties Increase - Signed Into Law as part of Budget Act
As previously reported by AGC, the Bipartisan Budget Act was a two-year budget agreement that Present Obama signed into law on Nov. 2. The bill included a provision that repeals the prohibition against adjusting the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) civil penalties for… Read More
February 4, 2016
Congress Passes Defense Bill; President to Sign into Law
AGC Federal Procurement Priorities to Become Law Both the House (last week) and Senate (this week) overwhelmingly passed the National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2016 (NDAA Bill), a bill the president vetoed just two weeks ago. The president is expected to sign the bill into law as a result of… Read More
February 4, 2016
Brady Wins Tax Gavel - Extenders are a Priority
Last week, the House Republican Steering Committee met and selected Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) as the next Ways and Means Chairman, replacing the former chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) who was elevated by his colleagues to become the Speaker of the House. The race to replace Chairman Ryan was the… Read More
February 4, 2016
Legislators Debate New PABs Category for Buildings
AGC was instrumental in advancing the debate for a private activity bond (PAB) provision during the debate on the surface transportation reauthorization and funding measure last week in the House. The Performance Based Building Coalition is promoting the creation for a new category of… Read More
February 4, 2016
Round 4: Carson & Trump Remain on Top
Despite early criticism for utilizing a poll from a less-than-respectable firm that pushed Lindsey Graham out and demoted Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee to the undercard stage, the Fox Business Network received record ratings Tuesday night when 13.5 million viewers tuned in for the fourth… Read More
February 4, 2016

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