March, 2015 - Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering
GOP budgets quiet on highway funding
Budgets that were released this week by Republican leaders in the HOuse and Senate offer little relief for a transportation funding shortfall that is threatening to stall construction projects this summer. Lawmakers are scrambling to come up with a way to pay for an extension of a transportation funding measure that is currently scheduled to…
ASCE Helps Provide a Bi-Partisan Budget Plan to Deter Cuts in Infrastructure
The President proposed a detailed, six-year plan. (The Gop) may not like how it was funded, but at least he did it. The Republican budget will send a ripple of fear and concern across this country because we are facing a cliff. The Republicans have no plan on the table and their budget demonstrates that. You are…
ASCE Fights in GOP for Long-Term Infrastructure Budget
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, we need to invest over $3 trillion by 2020 in our infrastructure. at a time when millions of Americans are working for starvation wages and when the federal minimum wage is an abysmal $7.25. We need to increase wages. We also need to pay equity in this country so…