By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) today released the following statement after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly panned the idea of infrastructure investment for a future economic rescue package...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As ongoing press reports indicate the Trump Administration is considering exploiting the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic to make permanent deregulatory measures, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2020 and the Drinking Water Infrastructure Act will build on bipartisan success of America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As members of Congress continue to examine the many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting state economies and services, as well as Americans' personal finances, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Calio: We write to encourage Airlines for America member airlines to provide the most liberal practicable accommodations of passengers who have had no choice but to cancel travel plans during the COVID-19 pandemic and to implement clear and consistent policies that protect the safety and health...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completed a groundbreaking effort that will enable on-demand operators to further enhance safety through standardized training offered by Part 142 training centers.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order revoking the repair station certificate of Puerto Rico Industrial Non Destructive Testing (PRINDT) of Carolina, Puerto Rico.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined U.S. Representatives Paul D. Tonko (D-N.Y.-20) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02) and more than 70 members of Congress in an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) requested Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell consider providing at least $5 billion in loans to...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) demanded answers from General Services Administration (GSA) head Emily Murphy...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement on the release of the Trump administration's report titled “Strategy to Restore American Nuclear Energy Leadership." Currently, there is no active uranium production in all of North America for the first time since World War II.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) today called on President Trump to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to waive all cost-share requirements for states responding to the global Coronavirus pandemic. On March 13, President Trump...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: “Through these two bipartisan draft infrastructure bills, Environment and Public Works Committee Democrats and Republicans are working together to get our economy moving again."
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) responded to the Trump administration’s announcement that it has finalized its rule to roll back clean water protections over the Nation’s rivers, streams, and wetlands, jeopardizing the safe drinking water of over a hundred million American households.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement to recognize the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment Chairwoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) slammed a Federal Communications Commission decision to approve Ligado’s application to use a portion of the L-band spectrum, which is also used for GPS, for a 5G network. The FCC approval...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Barrasso and Carper release drafts of America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2020 and the Drinking Water Infrastructure Act.
