ISSUE / Week of July 27, 2020
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Appropriations,FY21July 31,2020 |House Passes DOT, Water Funding for FY21 Without Significant Amendments
Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed a package of six fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills (as H.R. 7617), including the one funding the Department of Transportation, by a vote of 217... -
Accessibility,ADAJuly 31,2020 |
Op-Ed: From the Americans with Disabilities Act to Universal Design
July 26, 2020 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Since then, huge strides have been made in the field of transportation to increase...
Labor Unions Ask USDOT for Mandated Passenger Face Masks
July 31, 2020 | Brianne EbyOn July 27, Larry Willis, the President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), sent a letter on behalf of TTD’s 33 affiliated unions petitioning USDOT for rulemaking requiring...
Guest Op-Ed: The Role of Transportation in Improving America’s Health
July 31, 2020 | Renee Autumn RayThe Eno Center for Transportation’s publication of my white paper, Increasing Access to Essential Health Functions: The Role of Transportation in Improving America’s Health, is something I’m...
Guest Op-Ed: It Turns Out, Humans Are Pretty Smart: Developing Self-Driving Cars Is Harder Than We Thought
July 31, 2020 | Bob BrydiaSelf-driving cars. We’ve been promised for years they were “coming soon.” Most estimates a decade ago thought self-driving cars would be commonplace by now. Yet, here we are in 2020, and...
Coronavirus Aid Talks Drag On
July 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe extra $600 per week federal unemployment insurance benefit for the coronavirus crisis will expire today, and the eviction moratorium that expired on July 24 will stay expired, as Congress left...
Time Running Out for Administration to Submit Its Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
July 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisAs time runs out for Congress to reauthorize federal surface transportation programs prior to their scheduled expiration on September 30 of this year, time is also running out for the Trump...
White House Submits Sixth Amtrak Board Nomination as Senate Prepares to Move Rail Nominees
July 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis week, President Trump formally nominated a sixth person to be a member of the Amtrak Board of Directors – former Congressman Todd Rokita (R-IN). Rokita joins three other Republicans whose...
House Passes Biennial Water Resources Bill
July 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe House of Representatives passed the biennial water resources development bill (H.R. 7575) this week by voice vote after perfunctory debate during which members of both parties praised the...
House Passes Bill Regulating TNC Driver IDs
July 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisOn July 29, the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 4686) requiring ride-hail and ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft to develop digital methods of verifying that the person picking up a...
FTA Seeks Applicants for Expedited New Start Delivery Pilot
July 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Transit Administration on July 29 belatedly issued a notice requesting applications for a FAST Act pilot program for expedited delivery of fixed guideway mass transit projects. "This...
Capitol Hill Events – Week of August 3, 2020
July 30, 2020 | Jeff DavisThursday, August 6 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee hearing on pending USDOT nominations (Soskin to be IG, Primus to STB, and Feinberg and Koos to Amtrak Board) –...