May 6, 2011 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on May 5, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional staff on the House Transportation and Infrastructure is making progress drafting legislative language of what could become the panel’s six-year surface...
March 4, 2011 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on March 4, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to approve the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the latest effort by Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., to strip rail firms of a limited...
March 3, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Legislation
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on March 3, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will begin late this month to write its next six-year surface transportation legislation, said Chairman John Mica,...
February 4, 2011 | Headlines, Legislation
Rep. John L. Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is keeping his word to go on the road to collect ideas for a new multiyear transportation bill, while at the same time educating new House members on transportation issues....
August 11, 2010 | Headlines, Legislation
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Jim Abrams on August 11, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police...
August 3, 2010 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following story by William B. Cassidy appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on August 2, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill introduced in the House last week matches Senate legislation calling for a national freight transportation policy at the Department of...
June 2, 2010 | Headlines, Legislation, NS
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on June 1, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The head of Norfolk Southern Railway said he is finding nothing to like in the rail competition legislation pending in the Senate, after passage...
February 25, 2010 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on February 24, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, says he backed a Democratic jobs bill Monday after Majority Leader Harry Reid assured him the Senate will vote...
October 8, 2009 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on October 6, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Introduction of a rail regulatory reform bill in the Senate still awaits agreement with some shippers, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va....
September 18, 2009 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on September 17, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Judiciary Committee passed an antitrust bill that railroads oppose, as it would put them under the same antitrust provisions faced by...
