Issues & Modes / Freight
Trade Subcommittee Discusses Strategies to Modernize Customs Policies
May 26, 2023 | Anusha ChitturiThe House Ways and Means’ Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on May 25 to discuss modernization of customs policies for securing...
House T&I Approves 16 Surface and Maritime Transportation Bills
May 26, 2023 | Jeff DavisThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week approved sixteen bills making discrete policy changes to trucking law,...
Talk of Permitting Reform in Debt Ceiling Package Grows More Serious
May 19, 2023 | Jeff DavisIt looks more likely than not that some kind of permitting reform for construction projects will be included as part of the legislation...
House Committee Reviews Port Cybersecurity in Latest Hearing
May 12, 2023 | Garett ShrodeOn Wednesday, May 10, the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security under the House Committee on Homeland Security met to...
House T&I Committee Discusses Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges
May 12, 2023 | Eva MaddenOn Wednesday, May 10, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure met to discuss overcoming supply chain challenges faced...
House T&I Discusses Workforce, Safety, and Service Challenges Impacting Freight Rail Supply Chain
May 12, 2023 | Anusha ChitturiThe House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials held a hearing on May 11 to discuss the rail supply chain...
Summary of Senate Railroad Safety Bill
May 12, 2023 | Jeff DavisThis is a summary of S. 576, the Railway Safety Act of 2023, as amended and ordered reported by the Senate Commerce Committee on May...
Senate Votes to Block EPA Heavy Truck Rule
Apr 28, 2023 | Jeff DavisTwo Democratic Senators – one angry, one absent – allowed Senate Republicans to pass a resolution this week overturning the...
House Committee Approves 2-Year Coast Guard Authorization Bill
Apr 28, 2023 | Jeff DavisThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on April 26 approved a bipartisan, two-year Coast Guard and maritime policy...
Maritime Industry Discusses Ocean Shipping Reform and More
Mar 31, 2023 | Anusha ChitturiThe House T&I’s Sub-committee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation held a hearing on maritime transportation supply chain...
Short Line Railroads’ Environmental Push
Mar 21, 2023 | Jo StrangShort line railroads touch one out of every five cars moving on the national railroad system, serving customers who otherwise would be...
Bipartisan Push for Increasing Safety Regulation at the Recent Senate Hearing on Ohio Train Derailment
Mar 10, 2023 | Anusha ChitturiThe Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing on March 9 on the recent derailment of railcars carrying hazardous...