Transportation, Housing & Urban Development, and Related Agencies

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The Transportation-HUD bill funds the following agencies:
Department of Housing and Urban Development
-Federal Housing Administration
-Public and Indian Housing
-Government National Mortgage Association
-Community Planning & Development
-Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
-Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
Department of Transportation
-Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
-Federal Highway Administration
-Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
-Federal Railroad Administration
-Federal Transit Administration
-National Highway Traffic Safety Admin (NHTSA)
-Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admin
-St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
-U.S. Maritime Administration
Other Agencies:
-Appalachian Regional Comm/Appalachian Dev Hwy Sys (see also E-W)
-Federal Maritime Commission
-National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak)
-National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
-Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
-Surface Transportation Board
-United States Access Board (accessibility for people with disabilities)
-United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
-Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
In most respects House and Senate appropriations subcommittee jurisdictions are parallel.

• The budgetary treatment of highway and transit spending is unique because the authorizing committees (T&I in the House and EPW in the Senate) set the levels of “contract authority” which is a type of direct (mandatory) spending, but the Appropriations Committees place caps on annual outlays through “obligations limitations” in the annual Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill.
• Federal spending on highways and public transportation are funded by gasoline, diesel, and other Federal taxes dedicated to the Highway Trust Fund (“HTF”).  In recent years, taxes dedicated to the HTF have been insufficient to meet highway and transit needs and have been substantially supplemented by general tax revenues.
• Every five or six years, Congress enacts a multiyear “Highway Bill” that sets funding levels for highway and transit programs and establishes allocation formulas to divide available resources among the States.  Based on the allocation formulas, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) annually apportions to States legal authority to enter into contracts (“contract authority”) obligating the Federal government to pay a share of project costs. When various phases of contract work are completed, a State notifies FHWA, which authorizes the U.S. Treasury to disburse funds to fulfill the Federal obligation.  These disbursements are scored as Federal “outlays.”

Historical Database – THUD: 

Open a document below, press the Ctrl + F buttons, and enter relevant terms to locate the bill or report provisions you need.

Omnibus or Consolidated:  all (or most) regular appropriations bills packaged together.
Minibus:  several regular appropriations bills packaged together.
CR:  continues agency funding at a particular level–often the previous year–without detailed appropriations.
Cromnibus:  a CR for some agencies and detailed appropriations for others.

Note on Joint Statements:  In many cases, (House-Senate) joint explanatory statements on omnibus appropriations bills are printed only in the Congressional Record–which is impossible to read on mobile devices.  In those cases, we have uploaded House Rules Committee PDFs. 

Please note:  When you click on the links below, the bill your browser opens may not be what you expect, because the appropriations language you need has been included by the Committee in a bill with an unrelated title.  For example, LHHS appropriations might be included in a bill titled Mil-Con-VA.  Simply proceed to the relevant “title” or “division” of the bill..