With considerable debate and controversy, HR 1, the Stimulus bill has passed in the House of Representatives and has moved on to the Senate for additional debate and deliberation.
Current Bill Status
The full HR 1 text and various summaries are posted below:
Additional Supporting Documentation:
Within the Stimulus bill, there are a number of investments proposed, e.g. transportation funding, mass transit, broadband infrastructure and much more.
Question is, how do we intend to properly assess, triage and plan how and where best, geographically, to make these investments to provide maximal benefit without spatial data on a national level? How can these investments be expended without an adequately informed decisionmaking process?
This need points toward NSDI, the National Map and the related pieces that serve it, and a core need for geospatial data and analysis, which should be an integral part of any of these planning and investment processes, as well as embedding geo-enabled technologies within the investments themselves.
- The House Bill, HR 1
- Summary of Spending
- Summary of Tax Cuts
- Congressional Budget Office report, 1/26/09
- Summaries of the bill posted on the speaker’s Web site.
- Proposed Amendments
(note: these may change as HR 1 works its way through the Senate)
- ASCE Report Card on US Infrastructure
- State-by-state Transporation Infrastructure breakdown
- New America Foundation Summary of Educational Needs
- Schools Spending Plan
- State-by-state breakdown of low-income programs by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
There are also a few additional sites discussing the Stimulus, such as the GOP-driven http://readthestimulus.org/ which nonetheless provide useful resources.
Question is, how do we intend to properly assess, triage and plan how and where best, geographically, to make these investments to provide maximal benefit without spatial data on a national level? How can these investments be expended without an adequately informed decisionmaking process?
This need points toward NSDI, the National Map and the related pieces that serve it, and a core need for geospatial data and analysis, which should be an integral part of any of these planning and investment processes, as well as embedding geo-enabled technologies within the investments themselves.
Investment in infrastructure without also investing in the underlying planning process and supporting data and decisionmaking tools represents tremendous opportunity lost, in terms of making adequately informed decisions, leveraging efforts, and properly targeting infrastructure improvements to where they provide the greatest good to the American people as a whole.
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