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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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AGC Brings Message on 'Buy American' to U.S. Chamber and EPA
AGC's Utility Infrastructure Division Chair, Dragan Stojanovic of Norair Engineering Corp., participated on a panel hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the affect of domestic sourcing laws on various parts of the industrial supply chain. AGC was joined by manufacturer Xylem,… Read More
July 24, 2015
House Panel Approves Robust Corps’ Civil Works Funding Bill
Includes Policy Rider to Curb EPA’s Waters of the U.S. Rulemaking    On April 22, the House Appropriations Committee approved by unanimous voice vote a funding bill that would significantly increase funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Program in fiscal year 2016 as… Read More
July 24, 2015
In-Depth Updates on New Regulations & Case Law at Upcoming Federal Contractors Conference
Over the last year, the federal government has issued a host of new regulations impacting your construction business. Do you know about those regulations? Is your company already in compliance with them or properly preparing? Want to learn from construction law experts? Register for the… Read More
July 24, 2015
Highway Authorization Expires in Five Weeks
Have Your Members of Congress Heard from You?    In just five weeks, on May 31, highway and transit program authorization ends. Even with an extension of authorization, additional revenue is needed in the HTF by mid-summer or the Department of Transportation (DOT) will have… Read More
July 24, 2015
Budget Conferees Named, Negotiations to Begin Next Week
This week, House leadership named five Republicans and three Democrats to the budget conference panel. Senate leaders appointed the entire membership of the Senate Budget Committee as conferees on the FY 2016 budget resolution, 12 Republicans, eight Democrats and two Independents. Chairman Price… Read More
July 23, 2015
Register for the AGC Financial Issues Summer Meeting
June 8-9, 2015 | Colorado Springs, CO    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, Tax… Read More
July 23, 2015
Death Tax Repeal Advances in House
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1105, the Death Tax Repeal Act, by a 240-179 vote. This attempt to repeal the federal estate tax was the first vote of its kind in a decade and the likelihood for Senate consideration is low. During the fiscal year 2016 Budget vote-a-rama… Read More
July 23, 2015
AGC Provides Construction Industry Insight to Tax Reformers
On Wednesday, AGC submitted three formal comment letters to the Business Income Tax Working Group, Savings & Investment Working Group, and theCommunity Development & Infrastructure Working Group in response to the Senate Finance Committee’s request for input from… Read More
July 23, 2015
TCC Fly-In Presses for Long-Term Transportation Legislation
Over 500 contractors, material suppliers, equipment distributors and manufacturers, and other construction industry businesses participated in the 2015 Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) Legislative Fly-In, held this week in Washington, D.C. The groups heard from House Transportation… Read More
July 23, 2015
Plans Emerge on Highway Trust Fund
As the House and Senate begin discussions on how to deal with the May 31 expiration of the current transportation authorization, two bipartisan bills are emerging that seek to end the cycle of short-term bailouts of the Highway Trust Fund and set a path for a multi-year surface transportation… Read More
July 23, 2015

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