When Barack Obama announced his plans for the economic recovery package in early December, he called on Congress to have a bill on his desk to sign as soon as he was sworn in on January 20. Despite all the work that has already been done, the bill won’t be ready by the 20th, and [...]

I didn’t watch last night’s Golden Globe Awards, but I didn’t have to – Hollywood awards ceremonies are all pretty much the same: long, boring, and mostly self-congratulatory. Even though I’m not a huge fan of the show, one must keep up on these things. So while I was doing the obligatory morning-after look at [...]

After meeting with President-Elect Obama’s transition team and with the House and Senate leadership, ASCE’s lobbyists began fanning out across Capitol Hill today with the ambitious goal of meeting with the offices of more than 200 members of Congress by the end of January.    Focusing first on members of the House Appropriations Committee and [...]

President-elect Barack Obama spoke today at George Mason University in Virginia on his economic recovery plans.   While there was still no word on how much the final plan will cost, Obama acknowledged the price tag would have to be significant to make real improvements. As he as indicated for a few days, Americans should prepare [...]

It’s raining in Washington, D.C. today.  Cold, miserable, steady rain.  If you could pick a weather day that would represent the current economic mood of our country, the past couple days here would be spot on perfect.  But for the past week, the weather folks were throwing lots of scary things at us:  maybe some [...]

Shortly after the 111th Congress was sworn-in on January 6th, ASCE lobbyists went to Capitol Hill and discussed ASCE’s Principles for Infrastructure Stimulus Investment with a Senior Policy Advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The meeting was a follow-up to a letter sent by ASCE President Wayne Klotz to Speaker Pelosi in December announcing the [...]