Infrastructure
America’s prosperity, global competitiveness, and quality of life depend on modern infrastructure. We need a durable strategy to modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, water, energy, and modern access to broadband. Addressing these critical needs without raising taxes on business will create millions of jobs and make our communities safer.
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Permit America to Build
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To meet our growing challenges—like updating crumbling roads and bridges, addressing water quality, expanding broadband access, combatting climate change, and strengthening our energy security—the permitting process simply must be improved.
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For nearly 25 years, the U.S. Chamber has advocated for investment in our crumbling infrastructure system. We have brought together business and labor, Democrats and Republicans, and companies of every industry to move forward this urgent and overdue national priority. We will continue to work with partners in business and government to make the investment, find the workers, and get projects moving. There may be no better way to secure our nation’s long-term competitiveness.
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The U.S. Chamber's Roadmap to Modernizing America's Infrastructure covers four areas of focus (Surface Transportation, Critical Infrastructure, Permit Streamlining and Necessary Workforce) to get America moving again.
It is the simplest, fairest, and most effective way to raise the money America needs to upgrade our roads, bridges, and transit systems.
March 9, 2018 Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE West Building Ground Floor Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590 In the matter of Automated Vehicle Policy Summit (DOT-OST-2018-0017) To Whom It May Concern: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Engagement Center (“C_TEC”) commends the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) for holding its March 1, 2018 public Automated Vehicle
Infrastructure investors recently talked about turning talk into action.
U.S. Chamber Executive Director for Transportation Infrastructure Ed Mortimer's testimony to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit during a hearing, "Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Long-Term Funding for Highways and Transit Programs."
Contractors in the U.S. commercial construction industry report ongoing optimism about the current state and forward-looking health of the sector.
On behalf of key stakeholders that represent a wide cross section of auto and motorcycle manufacturers, suppliers, repairers, technology and communications companies, mobility providers, state and city governments, safety and national security groups, consumers, seniors, and persons with disabilities, we write to express our strong support for the Senate to take up and pass the AV START Act (S. 1885) as soon as possible.
The aviation industry is not resting on its laurels.
Top industry leaders will tackle these issues at the 2018 Aviation Summit.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue issued the following statement on the upcoming release of the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan:“For years, plenty of people have been willing to talk about modernizing our nation’s infrastructure, but few have been willing to take action. We applaud the Trump administration for laying out its vision for moving ahead on this critical issue.
