Issues & Modes / Safety & Security
House Subcommittee OK’s $71.5 Billion FY16 USDOT Budget
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 30, 2015 A House appropriations subcommittee today approved a draft bill making available $71.5 billion in spending authority...
Foxx Defends DOT FY16 Budget Before Senate Appropriators
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 22, 2015 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx defended his department’s fiscal year 2016 budget request before a...
Lean Year Ahead For USDOT Appropriations in the House
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 22, 2015 The House Appropriations Committee voted earlier today to allocate $1.017 trillion in discretionary appropriations...
CBO Data Illustrates Future Cost of Past HTF Commitments
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 16, 2015 As Congressional leaders return to Washington to discuss how to extend Highway Trust Fund program spending authority...
House-Senate FY16 Budget Talks Begin
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 16, 2015 House-Senate negotiations on the fiscal 2016 budget blueprint have begun in earnest, with the House appointing a team...
Administration Re-Releases GROW AMERICA Bill Text
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 2, 2015 The Obama Administration this week submitted the legislative text of a slightly revised version of the GROW AMERICA...
Senate Committee OK’s Freight Rail Regulation; PTC Deadline Extension Bills
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 26, 2015 The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday approved two significant pieces of freight rail...
House Passes FY16 Budget; Senate Still Debating
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 26, 2015 It’s budget week on Capitol Hill - the House and Senate are considering the annual budget blueprints on the floors...
Eno NextGen Working Group Releases Statement of Principles for ATC Reform
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 19, 2015 On Monday, the Eno NextGen Working Group released a stakeholder driven “Statement of Principles” for U.S. air...
CBO Says GROW AMERICA Grows Much More Slowly Than USDOT Says
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 19, 2015 Last week, when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its re-estimate of the President’s budget request...
Odds and Ends – Week of March 9, 2015
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisThe GAO has issued a new report entitled Auto Safety: Status of NHTSA’s Redesign of Its Crashworthiness Data System. It can be read...
McConnell Substitute Changes EPW, Commerce Bill Provisions
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 Here are what appear to be the main changes in the EPW and Commerce portions of the bill from the time that the...