Under Secretary Leaves DOT for OMB
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 Johnson-Nixon Mass Transit Bill of 1968-1969
The story of how Lyndon Johnson’s draft mass transit proposal of 1968 became Richard Nixon’s transit mass transit proposal of 1969.
Capitol Hill Events – Week of July 15, 2019
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)…
House Hearing Examines Rail Workforce Issues
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.
House T&I Looks at Mobility on Demand
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.
Senate Leaders Introduce Bill Repealing Highway Rescission
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.
Under Current Law, Census Should Have Zero Effect on Highway Funding to States
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.
Subcommittee Shows Support for Shoring up Short Sea Shipping
June 21, 2019 – This week, a House hearing looked at the benefits of using maritime transportation for short-distance freight shipping.
House to Debate FY20 USDOT Budget Monday
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House Panel Lets Pilots, Airlines Discuss 737 MAX
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.