July 12, 2019 – The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing this week to reinforce the need for a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill – the precise kind of bill that the panel hopes to approve by the end of this month.
July 11, 2019 – Over the last few months, Eno has welcomed three new staff members to our team.
July 12, 2019 – Pressure mounted on Congressional leaders this week to enact legislation increasing the public debt limit and statutory spending ceilings before Congress departs for its scheduled five-week August recess, which is to begin three weeks from today.
July 12, 2019 – Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy Derek Kan has left the Department of Transportation to take a senior post at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The story of how Lyndon Johnson’s draft mass transit proposal of 1968 became Richard Nixon’s transit mass transit proposal of 1969.
Tuesday, July 16 – House Homeland Security – full committee markup (agenda here) – 10:00 a.m., 310 Cannon. Tuesday, July 16 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Highways and Transit – subcommittee hearing on oversight of the FTA Capital Investment Grant program (witness list to be posted here)…
June 27, 2019 – At the June 20 hearing of the House Railroads Subcommittee on “The State of the Rail Workforce,” witnesses and Democratic members expressed that over the past decade, railroading has changed dramatically in this country.
June 27, 2019 – The House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a sparsely attended roundtable on June 25 to begin to familiarize members with new transportation options and their interaction with traditional public transportation services.
June 27, 2019 – Yesterday, the chairman and other leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, John Barrasso (R-WY) and his counterparts introduced a bill (S. 1992) repealing the rescission of $7.569 billion in federal-aid highway contract authority under section 1438 of the FAST Act that is currently scheduled to take place on July 1, 2020.
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.