House Passes 5-Month Surface Transportation Extension With $8 Billion HTF Bailout by Bipartisan 312-119 Margin September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis July 15, 2015 - The House of Representatives has passed, by a wide 312-119 vote, a bill (H.R. 3038) providing...
Administration Re-Releases GROW AMERICA Bill Text September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 2, 2015 - The Obama Administration this week submitted the legislative text of a slightly revised version of the...
Comparing the Investigation Provisions of S. 808 With Last Year's Bill September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis Text in roman type is text from last year’s bill (S. 2777, 113th Congress). Text of that bill that is...
Section-by-Section Summary of S. 808, the Senate STB Reauthorization Bill, As Reported September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis SECTION-BY-SECTION SUMMARY OF S. 808, SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2015 The bill redesignates sections 701 through 706 of...
Senate Committee OK’s Freight Rail Regulation; PTC Deadline Extension Bills September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 26, 2015 - The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday approved two significant pieces of freight rail legislation...
Ways and Means Chairman Indicates Short-Term HTF Extension In the Offing September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 26, 2015 - House Ways and Means chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), probably the single most important legislator on this...
Eno NextGen Working Group Releases Statement of Principles for ATC Reform September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 19, 2015 - On Monday, the Eno NextGen Working Group released a stakeholder driven “Statement of Principles” for U.S....
CBO Says GROW AMERICA Grows Much More Slowly Than USDOT Says September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 19, 2015 - Last week, when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its re-estimate of the President’s budget request...
CBO Releases Details of HTF, AATF Future Tax Receipts September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 9, 2015 - Buried within the supporting data of the Congressional Budget Office’s new baseline are the detailed assumptions...
Road Builders Propose Political “Offset” For 15 Cent Gas Tax Increase September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 19, 2015 - Last week, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association made an interesting proposal to make a...
Odds and Ends - Week of March 9, 2015 September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis The GAO has issued a new report entitled Auto Safety: Status of NHTSA’s Redesign of Its Crashworthiness Data System. It...
Supreme Court Rules Amtrak Is A Governmental, Not Private, Entity 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...
