Senate Rejects Initial Vote to Move to DRIVE Act July 21, 2015 | Jeff Davis July 21, 2015 - A test vote on moving forward on surface transportation legislation failed in the Senate today after...
New HTF Extension To Dec. 18 Introduced in House July 14, 2015 | Jeff Davis July 14, 2015 - At 7:43 p.m. last night, House leaders introduced a new bill extending Highway Trust Fund programs...
The State of Transportation Funding: A Realistic Examination of Pseudo-Federalism July 10, 2015 | Elizabeth Bastian In a recent article published in Innovation NewsBrief entitled “A Conservative Vision for the Future of the Highway Trust Fund,”...
Follow Reagan's Example, and Fill Up America's Highway Fund July 10, 2015 | Jeff Davis July 10, 2015 With the Highway Trust Fund set to expire three weeks from today on July 31, 2015, the Washington...
EPW Committee Approves DRIVE Act June 24, 2015 | Jeff Davis June 24, 2015 - The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has approved S. 1647, a six-year highway funding authorization...
Senators Introduce Amtrak Bill; Homeland Funding and STB Reauthorization Advance 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...
A Few Clarifications About Air Traffic Control Reform May 28, 2015 | Change can be frightening. Big changes, like restructuring U.S. air traffic control (ATC) governance, even more so. On April 5,...
Senate Passes Two-Month HTF Extension at 1:40 a.m. May 23, 2015 | Jeff Davis May 23, 2015 - At 1:40 a.m. this morning, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 2353, the two-month extension of Highway...
Imploring Senate Committee to Guarantee Stable Funding, Not Just Address FAA Structure May 20, 2015 | On May 19, I testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee at its hearing on Federal Aviation Administration...
Is There a National Pilot Shortage? May 19, 2015 | Several times during the past two decades, pilot shortages have been forecasted in the United States. But lower than expected...
A Bold Call for Major Change to Correct an Unacceptable Funding Problem May 19, 2015 | The United States and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are considered the gold standard for aviation across the globe. Our...
