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.
June 21, 2019 – This week, a House hearing looked at the benefits of using maritime transportation for short-distance freight shipping.
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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 House Energy & Commerce Subcommittees on Environment and Climate Change, and on Consumer Protection and Commerce held a joint hearing Thursday, June 20 on efforts by the Trump administration to roll back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
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.
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.
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.
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)…