ASAToday for July 17th, 2025

ASA Calls Upon Congress Not to Suspend the Federal Gasoline Tax ASA, along with the Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC), called upon congressional leadership to not suspend the federal gasoline tax in the name of “economic relief,” which is misguided and could undermine the recently enacted and bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Per their…

Critical Communications Survey: Please Respond! We’re Listening. Raise Your Voice Nothing beats one-on-one conversation to spur ideas and connections. That was reinforced at SUBExcel a couple weeks ago as we talked with a lot of our members about how to make YOUR association better. Only problem is that we spoke to a tiny fraction of…

ASA Supports Building Resilient Supply Chains Act On October 5, 2021, Reps. Malinowski (D-NJ), Kinzinger (R-IL), and Rochester (D-DE) introduced the Building Resilient Supply Chains Act, H.R. 5495 to establish the Supply Chain Resiliency and Crisis Response Office in the Commerce Department and authorizes $41 billion for the Office to make grants and loans to…

FAR Updates: Buy American Act Requirements On March 7, 2022, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) for Buy American Act Requirements” was updated as follows: An important issue that was not finalized in the rule, but will be an important issue on the Buy American horizon is the designation of “critical” items and components. For “critical”…