Inspiration

November 18, 2021

This week saw the culmination of efforts over several months to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Surrounded by various dignitaries, President Biden signed the bill into law on Monday. The…

November 10, 2021

After nearly three months of waiting, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) or Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF) was passed in the House of Representatives and is now being delivered to the White…

November 1, 2021

With frenzied activities related to the kickoff of the global COP26 Climate Change Conference, compromise appears to have finally been reached on infrastructure spending for the US. While a formal vote has yet to take…

October 19, 2021

The struggle for consensus between very divergent ideas is on full display in Washington, DC this month as the various factions within Democratic lawmakers attempt to find common ground. The bipartisan infrastructure bill…

October 4, 2021

Despite a deadline of September 27 to pass the IIJA, disagreements between key groups within Congress resulted in no concrete decisions or actions on infrastructure spending last week. With the quantity of critical topics…

September 28, 2021

Politics is more difficult than physics.

-Albert Einstein

Members of Congress are officially back in Washington, D.C., and they’re charging towards the cliff at the end of…

September 7, 2021

It can be challenging to wrap our minds around funding at the scale of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Just the act of counting a staggering number of zeros to be sure if we’re talking about millions…

August 31, 2021

We’re in the middle of the congressional recess. Most of the infrastructure work is spread between Senate staff drafting language for the reconciliation bill and individual members of Congress positioning to either…

August 17, 2021

Several key steps were completed the week of August 9th in the overall infrastructure saga. First, the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (the bipartisan legislation) was officially passed by the U.S. Senate by a count…

August 10, 2021

The bipartisan effort to support infrastructure needs across the U.S. has been announced as the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act. The Senate is presently working through amendments and procedural steps that will…

July 30, 2021

This week was highlighted by a significant breakthrough on Wednesday night when the Senate voted 76 to 32 to begin official debate on the bipartisan infrastructure legislation (called a cloture vote, technically ending a…

At the end of March, the White House released details of The American Jobs Plan (FACT SHEET: The American Jobs Plan | The White House), which outlines detailed concepts that fit together into the President’s vision for infrastructure spending.…

When we hear exciting news about a presidential plan, legislative bill or bipartisan compromise, it can be challenging to connect those headlines to the actionable topics that we care about. For those of us who can remember Schoolhouse Rock!, it’…

June 27, 2021

Thursday yielded an announcement from President Biden that he is in support of a bipartisan surface transportation bill negotiated by a group of 20 Senators. While positive, this in no way signals a conclusion to the…

June 21, 2021

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (DNC) let by Senator Joe Manchin (WV) released a 400-page discussion draft called the “Energy Infrastructure Act” which paints a vision for the reconciliation bill being…