June 28, 2019 – The U.S. Supreme Court issued a preliminary decision yesterday on the Census citizenship question, but no matter what happens, it won’t affect highway funding.
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June 21, 2019 – ODA is actually a fairly recent revision of the previous DER system and one of the major changes in that is that the FAA no longer chooses their designees, they’re chosen by the manufacturer and so, again, the incentives are not aligned as consistently toward public good with those kinds of choices being made and depending upon who their supervisors are.
June 21, 2019 – The Court of Justice of the European Union this week ruled that Germany’s plans for instituting a nationwide motor vehicle “infrastructure use charge” while exempting its own citizens from the charge violates EU rules which prohibit discrimination on the grounds of nationality and inhibit the free movement of goods and services.
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June 20, 2019 – A $2 trillion package of appropriations bills for fiscal year 2020 that includes the water resources program of the Army Corps of Engineers passed the House of Representatives yesterday by a party-line roll call vote of 226 yeas, 203 nays.
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June 19, 2019 – Legislation preventing transit agencies from buying new rolling stock from Chinese-owned manufactures has been included in the annual Pentagon authorization bill now pending in the Senate.
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Tuesday, June 25 – House Oversight and Reform – full committee hearing on TSA security operational vulnerabilities (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. Tuesday, June 25 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Highways and Transit – subcommittee roundtable discussion of the role of mobility on demand (MOD)…
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June 14, 2019 – This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation requested applications for $293 million in port infrastructure grant funding under a new program created by the 2019 Transportation Appropriations Act.
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June 14, 2019 – The House of Representatives finally started considering general appropriations bills for fiscal year 2020 this week, but there were early snags when a small core of anti-domestic-spending Republicans forced the House to take 70 roll call votes on amendments over an 18-hour period.
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