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AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey
94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies
The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More
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Last week, members of the AGC Environmental Network Steering Committee participated in the annual, two-day Washington, DC “fly-in” event at the association’s headquarters to discuss significant environmental rulemakings and initiatives that impact commercial construction.
AGC contractors and AGC… Read More
December 17, 2010
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AGC of America co-hosted a forum Wednesday in Charleston, S.C., to call for renewed federal infrastructure investment. The forum featured U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, Jr.
The policy forum focused on the importance of… Read More
December 16, 2010
AGC Wednesday submitted commentsto the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in response to the Board’s proposal to change the financial reporting of lease contracts.
The project is a joint effort by the FASB, which sets U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and the International… Read More
December 16, 2010
AGC has been working through a broad coalition effort in support of the reauthorization of the Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA), which provides grants for retrofitting diesel equipment.
DERA is scheduled to be approved by the Senate today and is expected to be approved by the House this week.… Read More
December 16, 2010
AGC of America co-hosted a forum Wednesday in Charleston, S.C., to call for renewed federal infrastructure investment. The forum featured U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, Jr., during which LaHood said it was the… Read More
December 16, 2010
On Tuesday December 14, the Senate Appropriations Committee released their $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011. The bill, which includes all 12 annual appropriations bills along with over $8 billion in earmarks, faces an uncertain future in the Senate with Republican… Read More
December 16, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to hold a vote either late this week or next week on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. This bill would give undocumented young people who were brought to the United States before age 16 a chance to qualify for… Read More
December 16, 2010
As a result of the November election and Republican control of the House in the next session, the GOP is planning to utilize the oversight function of all standing Committees to seriously evaluate the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda.
There will be several key tenets of the plan,… Read More
December 16, 2010
On December 3, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a new website called Reg Stat to provide information on proposed and final rulemakings, as well as other information and documents published in the Federal Register.
In the Part I, II and III articles, AGC highlighted several… Read More
December 15, 2010
The producer price index (PPI) for finished goods rose 0.4% in November, not seasonally adjusted (0.8%, seasonally adjusted), and 3.5% from November 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Tuesday. The PPI for inputs to construction—a weighted average of the cost of materials used in… Read More
December 15, 2010