Legislative Activity

AGC is committed to realizing the legislative priorities facing the commercial construction industry and growing the construction economy. AGC’s Legislative Action Committee sets our legislative priorities and serves as the regulatory clearinghouse while ensuring that AGC members have a voice in drafting AGC’s policy agenda. In order to get broad feedback, we survey thousands of AGC members and use the Legislative Action Committee to prioritize our priorities to solve the most vexing legislative problems facing the industry.

Issue Alerts

Hot Topics

On June 4, 2008 AGC sent a letter to all Senators in opposition to a provision in the climate change legislation that would have required new and unprecedented federal oversight of states’ transportation plans.
On June 3, 2008 AGC issued a press release on the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 that will expire in 2011. The elimination of those tax cuts will have a significant impact on the construction industry in particular and the economy in general.

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2008 Election

With the conclusion of the presidential primary season. AGC released its first version of a candidate comparison based on AGC’s legislative priorities and additional information can be view on the AGC election resource center www.agc.org/vote.

Construction Legislative Week In Review