ASAToday for July 3rd, 2025

Earmarks a Carrot for an Infrastructure Package? Speeding a complex, multi-year infrastructure initiative through Congress will be largely impossible without Republican support due to Senate rules. To make negotiations easier, Democrats rescinded a 2011 ban on spending earmarks.  Rep. Graves (Ranking Member of the House Transportation Committee) said “I’ve always been in favor of members…

This Week in Congress With four days until supplemental unemployment benefits begin running out on March 14th, the House is expected to pass on Wednesday, March 10th, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 Relief Package.  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that $1.1 trillion of spending under the package would go out this year, with a further…

ASA Strongly Supports the Promoting Infrastructure by Protecting Our Subcontractors and Taxpayers Act of 2021 On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Sens. Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rounds (R-SD) and Reps. Lynch (D-MA) and Balderson (R-OH) reintroduced the Promoting Infrastructure by Protecting Our Subcontractors and Taxpayers Act of 2021.  This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would direct the U.S….