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House Subcommittee OK’s $71.5 Billion FY16 USDOT Budget

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

April 30, 2015 - A House appropriations subcommittee today approved a draft bill making available $71.5 billion in spending authority...

Foxx Defends DOT FY16 Budget Before Senate Appropriators

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

April 22, 2015 - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx defended his department’s fiscal year 2016 budget request before a...

Lean Year Ahead For USDOT Appropriations in the House

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

April 22, 2015 - The Transportation-HUD subcommittee received an allocation of $55.27 billion. On its face, this is a $1.5...

Amtrak Requests $2 Billion For FY16 Operations, NEC Modernization

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

February 26, 2015 - Last week, Amtrak released its own budget request that has little to do with the White...

Supreme Court Rules Amtrak Is A Governmental, Not Private, Entity

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

March 11, 2015 - On Monday, for the second time in two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision...

Bipartisan Amtrak Bill Introduced In House

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

February 11, 2015 - The bipartisan leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week introduced legislation reauthorizing federal...

Senate Deciding Whether To Take Up Highway Bill

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 22, 2015 - At this hour (late Wednesday afternoon), the Senate is waiting to hold a “re-vote” on a...

House T&I Easily Approves Passenger Rail Reauthorization Bill

September 9, 2015

February 19, 2015 - The House of Representatives’ bipartisan passenger rail reauthorization bill (H.R. 749) easily passed through the House...

July 30, 2015 9:52 a.m. - House and Senate Almost Over DRIVE

July 30, 2015

July 30, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 30, 2015 - The Senate today is expected to pass both short-term and longer-term surface transportation legislation that will...

Senators Introduce Amtrak Bill; Homeland Funding and STB Reauthorization Advance

June 9, 2015

June 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

June 19, 2015 - Since yesterday morning’s ETW, three things have happened. First, Senators Wicker and Booker introduced a bipartisan...

What Does the Amtrak Incident Tell Us About How We Can Improve Safety?

June 1, 2015

We still do not know the cause of the Amtrak crash that killed 8 people and injured 200. But this...

House’s FY 2016 USDOT Appropriations Bill Cuts Discretionary Spending, Freezes Major HTF Accounts; Bans Some Cuba Travel

April 28, 2015

April 28, 2015 | Jeff Davis

April 28, 2015 - The House Appropriations Committee released the full text of the proposed Transportation-Housing appropriations bill for fiscal...