Tuesday, May 10 – House Appropriations – Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing – subcommittee hearing on the FY 2023 DOT budget request (Sec. Buttigieg to testify) – 1:00 p.m., virtual. Wednesday, May 11 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to consider non-transportation legislative items (list…
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April 6, 2022 – If all five of President Biden’s new nominees for the Amtrak Board of Directors are confirmed, then 71 percent of the Board would be from the states of the Northeast Corridor.
April 29, 2022 – In a 3 p.m. Friday afternoon announcement, the White House sent out a news release stating that President Biden intends to nominate five members for the Amtrak Board of Directors:
April 29, 2022 – Two U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee hearings this week dug into related, but different, transportation workforce needs.
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April 29, 2022 – In order to attract and retain future supply chain and freight workers, states must do more to incorporate workforce development as a part of freight transportation planning.
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April 29, 2022 – The leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees met yesterday to begin discussions of an overall total for the twelve regular appropriations bills for fiscal year 2023. A decision on a “topline” number is necessary before the total can be subdivided between the twelve bills and the House and Senate allowed to debate them.
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Tuesday, May 3 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee hearing to examine the fiscal 2023 budget request for the Department of Transportation (Secretary Buttigieg to testify)– 10:00 a.m., SR-253 Russell.
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April 27, 2022 – Inflation in highway construction cost components has badly eroded government highway spending in the past. How much inflation would it take to nullify the bipartisan infrastructure law’s funding increases?