September 16, 2022 – After some cajoling from the Biden Administration and an all-night negotiating session, the leaders of the remaining holdout railroad unions joined with the nation’s freight railroads in agreeing on new contract terms for their workers yesterday morning, avoiding a nationwide railroad service disruption that would otherwise have taken place starting today. (No one is quite sure if it would have been a strike by the unions or a lockout by the railroads.)
September 15, 2022 – In a rare example of continuity between the Trump and Biden Administrations, the U.S. Senate this week confirmed President Biden’s renomination of President Trump’s Transportation Security Administration chief, David Pekoske, to serve a second term running TSA.
September 15, 2022 – This week, the Federal Highway Administration updated its official measure of highway and bridge construction costs to indicate that those costs have increased by 20 percent in just one year (from the first quarter of calendar year 2021 to the first quarter of calendar year 2022).
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Tuesday, September 20 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment – subcommittee hearing on the Clean Water Act at 50 – 10:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. Wednesday, September 21 – Senate Environment and Public Works – full committee hearing on state and local perspectives on IIJA…
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/iStock-495755592.jpg13632200Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2022-09-15 19:12:142023-04-14 11:26:17Capitol Hill Events – Week of September 19, 2022
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September 6, 2022 – The Transportation Research Board has released a new report looking for trends in the ways that states utilize their ability to transfer federal-aid highway funding from one program to another, and out of highways entirely to spend the money on mass transit.
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