June 20, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse was posted on the New York Times website on June 19.) WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders moved Tuesday to force a vote on organized labor’s top legislative priority, a bill that would make it far easier to organize...
May 23, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation
(The Associated Press Writer circulated the following story by Devlin Barrett on May 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — New York’s two senators said Tuesday that recent train wrecks in upstate New York show Congress must put new teeth into the rail safety agency one called...
May 14, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation
(The following column by Eric Aasmundstad, Robert Carlson, Steve Strege, Dan Wogsland and Neal Fisher appeared on The Forum website on May 14. Aasmundstad is president of the N.D. Farm Bureau; Carlson is president of the N.D. Farmers Union; Strege is executive vice...
March 28, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Security
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Jim Abrams on March 27.) WASHINGTON — The House took steps Tuesday to make the nation’s rail and public transit systems safer from terrorist attack, focusing on an area that many say has been ignored in...
March 15, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines, Legislation
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Sarah Karush on March 15.) WASHINGTON — The Senate’s budget plan includes a boon for Amtrak – $1.78 billion for intercity passenger rail, nearly twice the amount proposed by President Bush and even...
March 12, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines, Legislation
(Gannett News Service circulated the following article by Raju Chebium on March 12.) WASHINGTON — States are rallying behind an Amtrak bill co-sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg because for the first time it would provide millions of dollars to run more trains...
March 2, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on March 2.) WASHINGTON — Democrats rewarded organized labor Thursday for helping them retake control of Congress, passing a House bill that would make it easier for workers to start unions against...
March 2, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation
(Reuters circulated the following article on March 2.) WASHINGTON — Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday unveiled a bill that would spend about $15 billion to double U.S. automobile fuel efficiency, expand ethanol distribution and build...
February 28, 2007 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Security
(Bloomberg News circulated the following article by William Roberts on February 27.) WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush may veto legislation to adopt many of the remaining recommendations of the Sept. 11 Commission unless Senate Democrats drop a plan to allow...
February 28, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines, Legislation
(The following article by Jennifer A. Dlouhy was posted on the Albany Times-Union website on February 28.) WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Tuesday blasted a plan by a group of rail-riding senators to overhaul Amtrak and give the passenger railroad an...
