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Capitol Hill Events – Week of November 27, 2017

By Jeff Davis

Senior Fellow and Editor, Eno Transportation Weekly

Tuesday, November 28 – House Homeland Security – Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security – subcommittee field hearing on stakeholder perspectives on securing public areas of transportation systems – 10:00 a.m., Trenton City Hall, 319 East State Street, Trenton, NJ.

Wednesday, November 29 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Aviation – subcommittee hearing on unmanned aircraft systems in a changing national airspace – 10:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.

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1978 Conable-Gibbons Amendment to the Highway Bill

This PDF is a series of documents relating to a proposed amendment in the House Ways and Means Committee to the revenue title of the highway bill in 1978. Drafted (at the Department of Transportation's request) by Reps. Barber Conable (R-NY) and Sam Gibbons (D-FL), the amendment would have put the Highway Trust Fund on a form of "accrual accounting" and ensured that each year's new funding authorizations were reduced to that upcoming year's estimated excise tax revenues.

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