Issue / Amtrak
Foxx Defends DOT FY16 Budget Before Senate Appropriators
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 22, 2015 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx defended his department’s fiscal year 2016 budget request before a...
Lean Year Ahead For USDOT Appropriations in the House
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 22, 2015 The House Appropriations Committee voted earlier today to allocate $1.017 trillion in discretionary appropriations...
Supreme Court Rules Amtrak Is A Governmental, Not Private, Entity
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 11, 2015 On Monday, for the second time in two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in a railroad case. In U.S. DOT...
House Passes Bipartisan Amtrak Reform Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 5, 2015 Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 749, the bipartisan passenger rail reform bill, by a wide 316...
Amtrak Requests $2 Billion For FY16 Operations, NEC Modernization
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 26, 2015 The White House’s official budget request for Amtrak this year is part of the GROW AMERICA surface...
Bipartisan Amtrak Bill Introduced In House
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 11, 2015 The bipartisan leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week introduced...
Senate Deciding Whether To Take Up Highway Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 At this hour (late Wednesday afternoon), the Senate is waiting to hold a “re-vote” on a procedural motion to take...
House T&I Easily Approves Passenger Rail Reauthorization Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONFebruary 19, 2015 The House of Representatives’ bipartisan passenger rail reauthorization bill (H.R. 749) easily passed through...
July 30, 2015 9:52 a.m. – House and Senate Almost Over DRIVE
Jul 30, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 30, 2015 The Senate today is expected to pass both short-term and longer-term surface transportation legislation that will lay...
Senators Introduce Amtrak Bill; Homeland Funding and STB Reauthorization Advance
Jun 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJune 19, 2015 Since yesterday morning’s regular issue of Eno Transportation Weekly came out, three important things have...
What Does the Amtrak Incident Tell Us About How We Can Improve Safety?
Jun 01, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONWe still do not know the cause of the Amtrak crash that killed 8 people and injured 200. But this has not stopped people from...
House’s FY 2016 USDOT Appropriations Bill Cuts Discretionary Spending, Freezes Major HTF Accounts; Bans Some Cuba Travel
Apr 28, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 28, 2015 The House Appropriations Committee released the full text of the proposed Transportation-Housing appropriations bill...