Capitol Hill Events – Week of September 10, 2018 – The Eno Center for Transportation

Capitol Hill Events – Week of September 10, 2018

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September 06, 2018 | Jeff Davis

Thursday, September 13 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials – subcommittee hearing on positive train control (PTC) implementation (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.

Thursday, September 13 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee hearing entitled “Transportation of Tomorrow: Emerging Technologies That Will Move America” (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., SR-253 Russell.

Thursday, September 13 – House Homeland Security – full committee business meeting to consider legislation including H.R. 6620, DHS drone threat assessment (full agenda here) – 10:30 a.m., HVC-210, Capitol Visitors Center.

Thursday, September 13 – Committee of Conference – meeting of House and Senate conferees on H.R. 6147, the “minibus” FY 2019 appropriations package containing the Agriculture, Financial Services, Interior-Environment, and Transportation-HUD bills – 1:00 p.m., HC-5, The Capitol.

Date TBA – House Rules – possible Rules Committee action on the conference report on H.R. 5895, Energy and Water Development/Legislative Branch/Military Construction-Veterans appropriations, FY 2019 (subject to availability) – time TBA, H-313, The Capitol.

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