November 21, 2014 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 20, 2014) The House Republican Conference yesterday selected U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) to again serve as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Full story: Progressive...
December 11, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: National Public Radio, December 10, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional negotiators announced Tuesday that they’d reached a budget proposal to restore about $65 billion worth of sequestration cuts in exchange for cuts elsewhere and additional fees....
October 2, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation, War on Workers
(Source: Associated Press, October 2, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — First slowed, then stalled by political gridlock, the vast machinery of government clanged into partial shutdown mode on Tuesday and President Barack Obama warned the longer it goes “the more...
September 30, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: USA Today, September 30, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans and Democrats in Congress are playing pingpong over funding the government and President Obama’s health care law. The first government shutdown since 1996 will occur if lawmakers and the...
April 18, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 17, 2013) House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and Ranking Member Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) yesterday appointed a new panel charged with examining U.S. freight transportation and how...
March 8, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: The Hill, March 7, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Longtime Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) won’t seek another Senate term, leaving Democrats to defend a fourth open seat in 2014. He is the fourth Democrat to announce his retirement ahead of the 2014 midterms,...
February 12, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure press release, February 8, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold its first hearing of the 113th Congress next week entitled “The Federal Role in America’s...
February 12, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Des Moines Register, February 11, 2013) DES MOINES, Iowa — Upgrading Iowa’s passenger railroad system with more than $100 million in state and federal money will have a big payoff for freight railroads and will bolster Iowa’s economy, rail advocates said...
February 1, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Politico, January 31, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — With little fanfare Thursday, the Senate agreed to suspend the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling until May 19, postponing the specter of default that threatened the nation as early as February. The vote was...
January 28, 2013 | Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Railway Age, January 25, 2013) NEW YORK — Reauthorized rail safety legislation the implementation of two new laws on pipeline safety and hazardous materials safety are on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s agenda in 2013, according...
