Tuesday, May 22 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Highways and Transit – subcommittee hearing on the FAST Act’s motor carrier provisions (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. Tuesday, May 22 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to mark up the…
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May 17, 2018 – The White House’s much-ballyhooed package of proposed spending cuts, submitted to Congress on May 8 and then introduced in the House as the bill H.R. 3 on the following day, proposes to rescind (cancel) $15.2 billion in appropriations from fiscal year 2017 and prior years. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the package will only reduce federal deficits by $1.3 billion over the next ten years.
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May 17, 2018 – Now that the House Appropriations Committee has released most of its draft fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills funding various non-defense infrastructure programs, we can ask – is the promise of an extra $10 billion per year for infrastructure being kept?
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May 10, 2018 – On Wednesday, May 9, U.S. Secretary of Transportation (USDOT) Elaine Chao announced the first ten state, local, and tribal governments selected to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP).
May 10, 2018 – now that ATC reform efforts have been defeated for the time being, it’s worth taking a deeper look at why they failed. ATC reform efforts pursued multiple policy goals, and each policy goal brought a different set of political opponents to the legislation. The combined opposition was just too great to be overcome.
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