Government Affairs Staff Offers News Roundup

A few articles of interest to the ready mixed concrete industry:

• Reuters on a recent internal White House meeting regarding a 13-year infrastructure package;
• Engineering News-Record on how the government shutdown is beginning to affect state Departments of Transportation;
• Bloomberg Government roundup of the latest on shutdown negotiations, funding for the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) and gas tax increase, among other things; and
• Congressional Quarterly on what needs to happen to pass an infrastructure package.

For more information, contact Andrew Tyrrell at atyrrell@nrmca.org.

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