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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 Asks for DERA Funding in 2015 Appropriations Bill
AGC, along with a broad-based diesel coalition, sent letters to the HouseHouse and Senate Appropriations Committees encouraging them to include $30 million in their fiscal year 2015 funding bill for grants, loans, and rebates made possible by the Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA).  The program… Read More
April 4, 2014
Expired Tax Provisions Process
On Thursday afternoon, the Senate Finance Committee approved by voice vote a modified version of the “Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act”, which Chairman Ron Wyden released earlier this week to retroactively extend the tax provisions that expired at the end of 2013.… Read More
April 4, 2014
House Budget Calls for Pro-Growth Tax Reform
On Wednesday, House Budget Committee approved 22-16, in a party-line vote, a draft fiscal 2015 budget resolution that would adhere to the discretionary budget authority of $1.014 trillion for fiscal 2015.  This budget calls for a number of pro-growth tax reform policies including: Simplify the tax… Read More
April 4, 2014
Contractors Add 19,000 Jobs in March to Hit Highest Level Since June 2009
Construction employers added 19,000 workers to payrolls in March, bringing industry employment to the highest level since June 2009, while the industry’s unemployment rate dropped to the lowest March level in seven years, according to an analysis of new government data by AGC.  Association… Read More
April 4, 2014
EEOC Issues New Guidance on Religious Garb and Grooming in the Workplace
On March 6, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued two new technical assistance guides addressing workplace rights and responsibilities with respect to religious dress and grooming.   The EEOC is responsible for enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which… Read More
April 3, 2014
Court Upholds OFCCP’s New Disabilities Rule
Revised regulations addressing affirmative action obligations of federal contractors in the employment of individuals with disabilities (IWDs) took effect on March 24 as scheduled, following a failed legal challenge by the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).  On March 21, the U.S. District… Read More
April 3, 2014
Army Requests New BRAC-Round at Congressional Hearing
U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh and Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno recently testified before the House Armed Services Committee in support of a new Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round in fiscal year 2017. With a reduction of some 200,000 active duty troops since the height of the… Read More
April 3, 2014
House Panel Reviews USACE Civil Works FY 2015 Budget
On April 2, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Commanding General Thomas Bostick and Assistant Secretary of the Army—Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy defended President Obama’s proposed nearly $1 billion cut to the Civil Works funding accounts in fiscal year (FY) 2015 before the House Transportation… Read More
April 3, 2014
Two Influential Republican Committee Chairmen Announce Retirements
MI-8 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers' surprise retirement announcement is igniting a political scramble in south-central Michigan. The open 8th District should remain in Republican hands, but if Democrats can create a political wave in either the Governor or Senate race that… Read More
April 3, 2014
Final Word on Construction Stormwater Management: EPA Eliminates Numeric Turbidity Limits, Monitoring Requirements from Federal Law
After a Decade of Back-and-Forth, Non-numeric BMPs Reign On March 6, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published long-awaited final amendments to its highly contested stormwater management rule, promulgated in late 2009.  The amendments withdraw the nationwide numeric limit on… Read More
April 1, 2014

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