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2024 AGC & HCSS Highway Work Zone Safety Survey
May 23, 2024
  Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and workers at risk, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of… Read More

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House Approves Military Construction & Veterans Affairs Funding Bill
House Denies President’s Request to Double VA Construction Spending    Late last week, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs on a 255 to 163 vote. The Military Construction… Read More
July 24, 2015
Expediting Federal Infrastructure Permits
This week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security passed S. 280, a bill sponsored by senators Portman (R-Ohio) and McCaskill (D-Mo.). The bill creates an interagency council to coordinate and expedite permits for major infrastructure projects. The legislation would require cataloguing lists… Read More
July 24, 2015
OSHA Issues Confined Spaces in Construction Final Rule
On Friday, May 1, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its long-awaited confined spaces in construction standard. The new rule will cover activities on construction sites with one or more confined spaces such as manholes, crawl spaces, tanks and other confined… Read More
July 24, 2015
Stop the EPA and Corps' Proposed Rule Redefining "Waters of the U.S."
Action Needed Now: House Vote as Early as Tomorrow, Rule Expected to be Finalized Soon    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are close to finalizing their proposed rule redefining "waters of the U.S." and making many… Read More
July 24, 2015
Register for the AGC Financial Issues Summer Meeting
June 8-9, 2015 | Colorado Springs, Colo.    TheAGC Financial Issues Committee (FIC) Summer Meeting will be held June 8-9, 2015 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO. The meeting is geared toward member company AGC member company CFOs, Treasurers, Finance Directors, Controllers,… Read More
July 24, 2015
House Subcommittee Moves Transportation Funding Bill
House Subcommittee Moves Transportation Funding Bill    This week, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) passed their fiscal year 2016 funding bill.  The bill includes funding for the Department of Transportation, the… Read More
July 24, 2015
AGC Weighs in Hours of Service
AGC Weighs in Hours of Service    This week, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a hearing that looked at the role of federal regulations as it pertains to Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety, including Hours of Service regulations. … Read More
July 24, 2015
Budget Conference Agreement Reached
House Expected to Vote Today, Senate Next Week    For the first time since 2010, the House and Senate have reached agreement on a joint budget resolution. The resolution would cut $5.3 trillion from the budget to balance federal receipts and expenditures over nine years.  The… Read More
July 24, 2015
AGC Testifies in Support of New Plan Design during House Multiemployer Pension Hearing
   On April 29, AGC CEO Stephen Sandherr testified during a hearing held by the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions on ways to further strengthen the multiemployer pension system. The bipartisan,… Read More
July 24, 2015
Stop the EPA and the Corps' Proposed Rule Redefining "Waters of the U.S."
Stop the EPA and the Corps’ Proposed Rule Redefining "Waters of the U.S."  Action Needed Now – House Vote as Early as Tomorrow, Rule Expected to be Finalized Soon    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are close to… Read More
July 24, 2015

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