WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The Transportation Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. EC2025019) on Feb. 12, 2025 entitled "A More Systematic Approach Is Needed To Identify Potential Anticompetitive Bidding on Federal-Aid Highway Projects." Here are excerpts: * * * Our Objective(s) To inform FHWA's guidance for preventing and detecting anticompetitive practices. Specifically, we (1) assessed competition in procurement for Federal-aid highway projects using statistical methods,  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following weekly digest: * * * Commission meetings and hearings No open meetings or executive sessions were scheduled this week. * * * Advisory Opinions Requests Received Advisory Opinion Request 2025-06 (https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2025-06/) (Campaign Legal Center) On April 7, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request (https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2025-06/202506R_1.pdf) from Campai  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics issued the following news: * * * Live Monitoring of Tanker Vessel Calls at U.S. Ports Data spotlights represent data and statistics from a specific period of time, and do not reflect ongoing data collection. As individual spotlights are static stories, they are not subject to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) web standards and may not be updated after their publication date. Please co  more