Wednesday, September 30 – House Homeland Security – Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations – subcommittee hearing on DHS management of trusted traveler programs (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., 310 Cannon. Wednesday, September 30 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – full committee business meeting to mark up bills…
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September 24, 2020 – Total vehicle miles-traveled (VMT) on U.S. roadways in July 2020 was down 11.2 percent from the July 2019 level, and this may represent a “new normal” traffic level in the age of COVID.
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September 18, 2020 – The Federal Transit Administration announced this week that it signed two more full funding grant agreements (FFGAs) for mass transit projects under the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program.
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September 18, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Transportation on September 16 announced the selectees for $1 billion in surface transportation grants from the BUILD program (formerly known as TIGER).
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Monday, September 21 – House Rules – full committee hearing on H.R. ___, Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, plus other business – 1:00 p.m., H-313, The Capitol. Tuesday, September 22 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – Subcommittee on Security – subcommittee hearing on the Coast Guard 2019 Arctic…
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September 11, 2020 – Mass transit agencies across the country spent $2.3 billion of their CARES Act coronavirus funding in July, while airports spent $652 million of theirs, according to new reporting from the Office of Management and Budget. That still left $16.7 billion of the $25 billion in CARES Act transit aid and $8.4 billion of the $10 billion in CARES airport aid unspent as of July 31.
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Wednesday, September 16 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to mark up bills including S. 3969, aircraft certification reform, and the Soskin, Primus, Feinberg, Rokita and Koos nominations (full agenda here) – 9:45 a.m., SR-325 Russell.
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