May 13, 2022 – The House and Senate kicked off the first formal intercameral conference committee of the current Congress, and the first one in several years. The subject is the mammoth economic competition bill – reconciling the differences between the 3,609-page House bill (H.R. 4521) and the 2,325-page Senate amendment.
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May 6, 2022 – Between his boyhood in an internment camp and his time as Secretary of Transportation, Norman Mineta had a 28-year career as an elected official who had a major influence on local and national transportation issues.
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May 6, 2022 – President Biden today signed the bill S. 400 into law, naming the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters building the “William T. Coleman, Jr. and Norman Y. Mineta Federal Building.”
Tuesday, May 10 – House Appropriations – Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing – subcommittee hearing on the FY 2023 DOT budget request (Sec. Buttigieg to testify) – 1:00 p.m., virtual. Wednesday, May 11 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to consider non-transportation legislative items (list…
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April 6, 2022 – If all five of President Biden’s new nominees for the Amtrak Board of Directors are confirmed, then 71 percent of the Board would be from the states of the Northeast Corridor.
April 29, 2022 – In a 3 p.m. Friday afternoon announcement, the White House sent out a news release stating that President Biden intends to nominate five members for the Amtrak Board of Directors: