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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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Your Legislators Need to Hear from You!
With a transportation bill beginning to move through the Senate, it is critical that you contact your legislators to educate them on the importance of supporting a highway bill and the affect it will have on your company and job if they don’t.
Set up… Read More
May 16, 2014
House and Senate Votes Soon
On May 15, the House Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committees released a final Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA). The House is likely to vote on the final WRRDA bill next week, while the Senate will… Read More
May 16, 2014
AGC and its coalition partners in the Water Infrastructure Network have been engaged in an 18-month campaign to include significant clean water provisions in the final conference package of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act. Those efforts successfully secured several provisions that… Read More
May 16, 2014
House Vote on Anti-Reverse Auctions and Design-Build Legislation Next Week
The House Armed Services Committee recently included a number of AGC procurement reform priorities in a major Department of Defense bill – the National Defense Authorization Act. The AGC priorities in the legislation… Read More
May 16, 2014
AGC recently sent two letters opposing the possible use of a project labor agreement (PLA) mandate posted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The prospective PLA projects are at Joint Base Langley-Fort Eustis, Va. and Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
AGC has sent over 80 letters to federal… Read More
May 16, 2014
June 19-20, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
The Summer 2014 AGC Financial Issues Forum (FIF) will be held June 19-20 in Washington, D.C. The meeting is geared toward member company CFOs, CEOs and other senior accounting professionals –all forum attendees will have an opportunity to network and hear from… Read More
May 16, 2014
Nebraska
In last night’s Nebraska Senate primary, Midland University president Ben Sasse easily won the GOP nomination to succeed retiring Sen. Mike Johanns (R). Sasse impressively scored 50 percent of the vote, followed by Sid Dinsdale's distant second place finish with 22 percent, and Shane… Read More
May 16, 2014
The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in response to the release of the final version of the joint House-Senate conference committee’s Water Resources Reform & Development Act: "The release of this water… Read More
May 15, 2014
The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in response to the passage of a surface transportation measure today by the members of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee: "The fact that a new highway… Read More
May 15, 2014
Today, AGC celebrates Building Safety Month, along with other leaders of America’s design and construction industry, promoting resilience as the solution to making the nation’s aging infrastructure more safe and secure. AGC and almost two dozen associations, representing 700,000 members, issued a… Read More
May 13, 2014