Browse by Tag: Legislative
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EDA: Summary of 2011-2012 House Floor Roll Call Votes
U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Economic Development Administration Summary of 2011-2012 House Floor Roll Call Votes Updated May 11, 2012 During the 112th Congress (2011-2012), the U.S. House of Representatives has held four floor votes on funding issues related to...
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Update on FY13 T-HUD Appropriations Bill: CDBG, HOME, and Essential Air Service
On June 27, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a number of amendments offered to H.R. 5972, the FY2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (the T-HUD bill). The bill is expected to be passed...
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FY2013 HUD CDBG Appropriations Update
ACTION NEEDED: Contact your members in the U.S. House of Representatives and urge them to continue to support the HUD Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program during floor consideration of the House FY2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) appropriations...
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Senate Approves Farm Bill Reauthorization
On June 21, the U.S. Senate passed the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 (S. 3240), a $498 billion, five year bill. Senators passed the measure 64-35, after working through an agreement that allowed consideration of over 70...
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NADO Issues Action Alert on Upcoming House-Senate Conference of Surface Transportation Reauthorization
SPECIFIC ACTION NEEDED: Urge your Senators and Representatives to support the House language for state DOT “cooperation” with non-metropolitan local officials in the statewide transportation planning process (including the establishment of Regional Transportation Planning Organizations for areas outside of MPOs),...
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ACTION ALERT: HUD CDBG Program
Rep. Brady (D-PA) Circulates Letter to Increase Funding for CDBG in FY2013 The FY2013 appropriations process has begun! Similar to last year’s process, Members of Congress are allowed to submit Programmatic Requests and Language Requests to the Appropriations Subcommittees regarding...
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Surface Transportation Bills Moving Ahead
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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Federal Update for South Carolina State Association
NADO Executive Director Matthew Chase was the luncheon keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Association of Regional Councils. The conference is attended each year by more than 250 state legislators, county and city elected officials, regional...
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NADO Releases Special Edition of NADO News at Annual Training Conference
On October 8, at the 2011 Annual Training Conference held in Miami, FL, NADO released a special edition of NADO News, “A Review of Federal Legislative Activity Impacting Regional Development Organizations,” highlighting federal community and economic development policy issues and...
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President Obama Announces the American Jobs Act
On September 8, before a Joint Session of Congress, President Obama outlined his new plan to create jobs and boost the economy. In his proposal, The American Jobs Act, the President calls for greater investment in the nation’s infrastructure and...
