The MSHA State Grants program, so valued by aggregates operators for its support of quality safety and health training for miners, is funded in the $1.1 trillion FY 2015 omnibus government spending bill. READ MORE
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the key legislative panel tasked with writing the next surface transportation reauthorization, will welcome 12 new Republican members to the committee – including ten freshmen – when the 114th Congress convenes in January. READ MORE
Members of the Highway Materials Group met with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in his U.S. Capitol office Dec. 3 to discuss surface transportation infrastructure and the need to increase investment in the program long before the expiration of current law next May. READ MORE