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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure to Invest in Construction Education & Training Programs Makes it Hard for Firms to Build
August 26, 2024
  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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Safety Bill Expected to Move in Committee Next Week
This week, the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on a new piece of legislation, the Miner Safety and Health Act.  This bill seeks to make changes to both MSHA and OSHA.  AGC is a strong advocate of worker safety but is concerned about the direction of the bill. The legislation… Read More
July 15, 2010
T and I Committee Hearing Focuses on Jobs and Water Infrastructure
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water and the Environment held a hearing today focusing on the need for clean water infrastructure investment and the positive impacts water infrastructure has on the environment, public health and  employment. During the hearing… Read More
July 15, 2010
Transportation Department Holds Town Hall Meeting on Reauthorization
AGC participated in a town hall-style meeting with U.S. Department of Transportation's top leaders who addressed the next long-term transportation bill.  This meeting was the final event in the Department's series of "listening tours" leading up to its release of the surface transportation… Read More
July 15, 2010
AGC of America, Chapters and Members Respond to Multiemployer Pension Reform Criticisms
  AGC of America this week signed a letter to Congress with over 312 companies and 80 employer organizations to express concern about misinformation circulating regarding multiemployer defined benefit plan relief proposals before Congress.  Joining AGC of America in signing the letter are 11 AGC… Read More
July 15, 2010
Small Business Jobs Bill Stalls in Senate
A stalemate over a small business jobs bill (H.R. 5297) continued this week in the Senate.  The Senate had adjourned for the July 4th recess after beginning debate on the measure, which includes a package of tax cuts and provisions to increase access to capital for community banks and small… Read More
July 15, 2010
Financial Regulation Legislation Passes Senate
The Senate passed the conference report to H.R. 4173, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill will now go to the President for his signature. The legislation was opposed by the banking industry because it would significantly impact fees banks charge while adding new… Read More
July 15, 2010
EPA Expands Reach of Clean Water Act
  EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has declared the cement-lined Los Angeles river as "navigable," allowing her agency to enforce Clean Water Act protections throughout the river's 834-square-mile watershed. Recent Supreme Court rulings have strictly interpreted "navigable" as the means of… Read More
July 15, 2010
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Comments on Posting Contracts Online ANPR
AGC submitted comments this week on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) issued May 13, titled Enhancing Contract Transparency. The rule presupposes that, given the direction the administration is moving with the president's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) memo, Transparency and Open… Read More
July 15, 2010
Recovery Act-style Reporting Requirements Instituted for All Contracts
An interim rule was issued that brings many of the reporting requirements first made public in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the broader scope of federal contracting. The rule calls for reporting executive compensation and first-tier subcontract awards if the prime contractor and… Read More
July 15, 2010
Did Commercial Real Estate Escape its Crash?
Is the commercial real estate crash still waiting to happen, or did the market escape the same fate its residential counterpart succumbed to?  According to Fortune, there are two opposing fields of thought that have answers to this question.  The Congressional Oversight Panel still predicted a… Read More
July 15, 2010

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