Federal Update for the Alaska Municipal League. August 2018

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1 Federal Update for the Alaska Municipal League August 2018

2 What We re Pushing For Infrastructure, including Transportation, Water, Workforce and Broadband Community and Economic Development Community Resilience & Disaster Preparedness Public Safety, including Opioids Support

3 A Major Win Yet an Uncertain Future FY18 and FY19 Fiscal Year Spending Deal Wins: CDBG, Transportation Funding, and Brownfields FY19 Budget and Appropriations Senate March of Bills House Unknowns Administration Holding Back

4 What We re Fighting Against 1. Rescission and Uncertainty of Federal Programs 2. Protecting Municipal Bonds and SALT in Tax Debates 3. Fighting Broadband Preemption at the Federal and State Levels 4. Challenging Autonomous Vehicle Preemptions Without an Adequate Safety Net 5. Pushing Back Drone Preemption at the National and State Level

5 Spike in House Retirement 35 R D Running for other ofice Retiring As of April W. BUSH OBAMA TRUM P House control: 107 t 108 th 109 th 110 th 111 th 112 th 113 th 114 th 115 th h R R R D D R R R R

6 Retirement Reshapes Committees Distric t Committe e Terms in House Diane Blac k Budget TN Rodney Frelinghuyse n NJ- 11 Appropriations 12 Trey Gowd y SC-04 House Oversight Gregg Harpe r MS-03 House Administration 5 Bob Goodlatt e VA-06 Judiciary 13 Distric t Committe e Terms in House Jeb Hensarlin g Financial Services TX-05 8 Ed Royc e CA-39 Foreign Afairs Lama r Smit h TX- 21 Science, Space Technology 16 Bill Shuste r PA-09 Transportation & Infrastructure 9 13

7 Race to Control Congress: House Race Ratings

8 Race to Control Congress: Senate Race Ratings

9 Fall Outlook for Lame Duck What They Could Finish Up: FAA Reauthorization by October 1 st Drones Annual spending bills by October 1 st Farm Bill Autonomous Vehicles? Infrastructure Package?

10 Legislative Priorities in 2018 Telecommunications Halting Preemption of Local Authority FCC s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee Representation Online Sales Tax South Dakota v. Wayfair Ruling Congressional Action Stalled Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) Census Ensuring Accurate Population Count for America s Cities Infrastructure Upcoming Congressional Action Shuster Principles Rebuild With Us

11 Rebuild With Us Transportation, Broadband, Water and Workforce

12 Where our investment is falling behind

13 Infrastructure Solutions on the Table President s Proposal Leverage $200B in federal funding, but no new funding 80/20 split for most funding Includes workforce apprenticeships Democratic Leadership Proposal Rollback tax cuts to businesses to invest widely in infrastructure and workforce House Transportation Chairman Shuster s Proposal Fix the Highway Trust Fund through an increase in gas taxes but with path to eliminate the gas tax Pilot vehicle miles travelled nationally Return

14 Rebuild With Us: Fall Advocacy Continuing to tell city infrastructure stories Keeping up the pressure for Congress to introduce an infrastructure proposal Preparing for fall appropriations fight Relationship building with the White House through State Days

15 Be Represented on NLC Policy Committees

16 Additional Resources

17 Stay in Touch Brittney Kohler Federal Advocacy Program Director Transportation and Infrastructure National League of Cities Mike Nelson Program Manager West Region Member Services and Engagemen National League of Cities

18 Thank You

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