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  • NADO Analysis of the President’s FY13 Budget

    Posted on: February 16th, 2012 by Matthew Chase

    NADO released its annual in-depth analysis of the President’s FY2013 federal budget blueprint.  A copy of the written summary, with accompanying budget chart, was emailed to the full membership.  In addition, the association hosted a members-only webinar today to discuss...

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  • McCauley Outlines NADO Rural Development Priorities at Senate Hearing

    Posted on: February 15th, 2012 by Matthew Chase

    NADO Member Mathias (Matt) McCauley of the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments testified on USDA Rural Development issues before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on February 15. The 2012 Farm Bill hearing focused on energy and economic growth for rural America.

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  • Senate Finance Chair Releases Funding Ideas for Transportation Bill

    Posted on: February 6th, 2012 by Matthew Chase

    On February 4, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) unveiled his plan, Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012, (http://finance NULL.senate NULL.gov/newsroom/chairman/release/index NULL.cfm?id=4f035bc1-14e2-4bea-8d0b-7e578fa5bfbc) to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through FY2013.  The Senate Finance Committee...

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  • House Transportation Committee Approves Surface Bill After Long, Partisan Markup

    Posted on: February 6th, 2012 by NADO Admin

    On January 31, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, led by Chairman John Mica (R-FL) and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Chairman John Duncan (R-TN) unveiled the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act” (H.R. 7).  On February 2, the committee...

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  • Final FAA Reauthorization Deal Modifies Essential Air Service

    Posted on: February 6th, 2012 by NADO Admin

    After more than four years of extensions and delays, Congress reached a final agreement this week on a four-year reauthorization for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs.  The House-Senate conference report (H.R. 658, H. Rpt. 112-381) authorizes $15.8 billion annually for...

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  • Surface Transportation Bills Moving Ahead

    Posted on: February 1st, 2012 by Matthew Chase

    The House and Senate are moving full steam ahead on completing multi-year reauthorization bills for the nation’s federal surface transportation programs for highways, freight, transit, safety and other related issues. As part of the SAFETEA-LU rewrite process, the Senate is...

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  • DOT Announces Next Round of TIGER Grants

    Posted on: January 31st, 2012 by NADO Admin

    This week the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the availability of funds for the next round of the TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) Discretionary Grant program. The FY2012 TIGER grant program will make $500 million available for projects...

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  • Building Disaster Resilient Economies Webinar

    Posted on: January 27th, 2012 by Matt Black

    On January 26, NADO joined the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) and the U.S. Chamber’s Business Civic Leadership Council (BCLC) in hosting a webinar on post-disaster, long-term economic recovery.  The event provided preliminary guidance...

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  • House Begins to Move Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill

    Posted on: January 24th, 2012 by NADO Admin

    The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is scheduled to mark up a five-year SAFETEA-LU highway and transit reauthorization bill on February 2 at 9:00 am.  In addition to new revenues from expanded oil and gas drilling, rumors are circulating...

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  • President Obama Recommends Consolidation of Commerce Agencies

    Posted on: January 24th, 2012 by NADO Admin

    On January 13, President Obama requested from Congress the authority to reorganize and consolidate parts of the federal government, and proposed to merge several of the U.S Department of Commerce’s trade and commerce agencies into a single department.  The agencies...

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