Archive for June 2021

ASA Calls Upon Senate Majority Leader Schumer for a Vote on Surface Transportation Legislation ASA, along with 50 trade associations including the U.S. Chamber, sent a letter to Senate Majority Schumer urging him to formally schedule Senate floor time now for action on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021 (STRA) before the August recess.…

EEOC Issues COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance for Employers This article is from SESCO Management Consultants ASA’s Human Resource partner. To learn more about this and all of the other benefits available through your ASA membership, click here. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued new COVID-19 vaccine guidance for employers. The new guidance addresses…

Senate Infrastructure Talks Continue… President Biden and Sen. Capito (R-WV) met again on Tuesday to discuss infrastructure.  President Biden previously rejected Senate Republicans’ $928 billion infrastructure offer, which had $257 billion of new net spending. The President had dropped his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan to $1.7 trillion in new spending.  Sen. Romney (R-UT) said he…

House Earmarks to Be Included in the Surface Transportation Bill The House Democrats attached 1,473 earmark requests to surface transportation reauthorization legislation.  The earmarks will be included in the $547 billion highway bill to be considered on Wednesday by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.  It will include 1,067 earmark projects from Democrats, 403 from…

President Biden’s Tax on Multinational Corporations President Biden’s plan for a 15 percent minimum global tax on multinational corporations made headway over the weekend, when finance leaders of the Group of Seven nations agreed to push for a minimum tax that would be imposed on corporations no matter where they locate their headquarters. The group…

Click Here to View this Podcast! ASA Government Relations Podcast: Interview with Jordan Howard of Associated General Contractors of America On May 20th, 2021 ASA’s Government Relations Director, Mike Oscar, interviewed Jordan Howard, Director of the Federal and Heavy Construction Division at the Association General Contractors of America. During this podcast they discussed ways to…

Registration for SUBExcel Open June 15! ASA is incredibly excited to announce that registration for SUBExcel 2021 will open on June 15th, 2021! SUBExcel 2021, “Onward!”, will take place on March 9-12, 2022 in beautiful Miramar Beach, Florida. This is the perfect opportunity to bring the entire family our for fun on the beach, networking…

Special Thanks to ASA President Brian Cooper As ASA President Brian Cooper enters the final month of his term, ASA would like to give Brian a special shoutout for helping get all of our members through a year like no other. Throughout his 2020-2021 term, the entire landscape changed not just for subcontractors but for…

Program Encourages Young Arizonans to Get Into the Trade Industry   Article from KTAR News   PHOENIX – The trade industry is not what it used to be in Arizona. So much so that it can be seen in the construction industry today with a delay in building new homes here in the Valley. As…