Wednesday, March 17 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – full committee hearing on “the business case for climate solutions” (witness list to be posted here) – 11:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
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March 11, 2021 – Over three months in 1970-1971, the Transportation Department and the Nixon White House had to draw up a basic map of route endpoints, which the new quasi-federal passenger railroad (not yet known as Amtrak) would be required to serve. This is how the system map was drawn up.
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March 5, 2021 – President Joe Biden hosted an Oval Office meeting yesterday with a bipartisan group of House members to discuss infrastructure legislation, but not only did no plan emerge (to be expected), after the meeting there was no clear sense on whether or not bipartisan legislation would be possible.
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March 5, 2021 – Polly Trottenberg, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Deputy Secretary of Transportation, got a good reception March 3 at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
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March 5, 2021 – COVID-19 has landed the aviation industry in the largest crisis in its history. With the pandemic still ongoing and passengers levels still significantly down, the Aviation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing entitled “COVID-19’s Effects on U.S. Aviation and the Flight Path to Recovery.”
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March 4, 2021 – This week, as part of the annual budget message, the government of United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson proposed to create a national Infrastructure Bank, to be located in Leeds (not London) and to be capitalized with £12 billion in capital from Her Majesty’s Treasury.
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Wednesday, March 10 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials – subcommittee on why rail is relevant for economic and environmental progress (witness list to be posted here) – 11:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. Wednesday, March 10 – House Appropriations – Subcommittee on Energy and…
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