Construction and engineering companies find lots of good news in a newly enacted budget and appropriations package that keeps federal agencies open until late March, provides $89 billion for post-disaster relief and rebuilding and also holds out the prospect of an additional $20 billion in infrastructure funding over the next two years.
Final congressional approval didn’t come until the early hours of Feb. 9, when the Senate passed the measure, 71-28, and the House cleared it by a 240-186 vote. All of that action came after a stopgap spending bill expired at midnight.