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In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for new spending on infrastructure, including highways, transit and high-speed rail. But congressional Republicans have been pushing to cut federal spending for non-defense programs.

The Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Jan. 26 on the recently released findings and recommendations of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

 

Companies are coming up with solid ideas and reinventing themselves to prepare for economic recovery.

The House Rules Committee has cleared a resolution that formally calls for slicing non-defense federal spendiing to 2008 levels. But it doesn't spell out exactly which programs would be cut and by how much.

Construction machines are getting bigger in the behind.

The dot-coms are coming back.

President Obama has nominated Republican Terence Flynn to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, bringing the panel to a full complement of five members.   He also nominated Lafe Solomon, a Democrat, to serve as general counsel.

Construction's December unemployment rate was worse than November's, but showed improvement year-over year.

This impressive 150-footer is the tallest self-propelled boom lift on the market that doesn’t require a slew of special transport permits, says the manufacturer.