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Week of October 19, 2015

Compromise PTC Language Included in House Highway Bill and May Ride in Short-Term HTF Extension As Well

By Emily Han

Policy Analyst

October 23, 2015

The chairmen of the House and Senate committees that over see railroads, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), have negotiated a compromise version of positive train control (PTC) language that would extend the stat...

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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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Compromise PTC Language Included in House Highway Bill and May Ride in Short-Term HTF Extension As Well

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