The Senate proposal is just a two-page framework and will require a lot of work to transform it into legislation. Transportation reauthorization will almost certainly be a major component, with measures already approved by the Senate Environment Public Works Committee and the Commerce Committee combined with yet-to-be-released transit provisions. Were talking home with Senate staff to determine how the other pieces of the compromise deal-energy, broadband, and resilience-would come together in the package.
We also won a partial fix to the PPP/FAR credits clause issue in the bill, limiting the FAR credit to federal dollars in contract payments and thereby preventing state DOTs from applying the FAR provision to state-funded contracts
Passage in the Senate isnt a slam-dunk by any stretch. Continue Reading…