By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), praised the Senate's passage of the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) held the hearing, “The Invasive Species Threat: Protecting Wildlife, Public Health, and Infrastructure." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) shared comments in remembrance of the fatal Colgan Air crash that took 50 lives.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks on the on the “Green New Deal" resolution that was introduced by Democrats last week.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), top Democrat of the EPW Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), top Democrat on the EPW Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the first Subcommittee on Aviation hearing of the 116th Congress, “Putting U.S. Aviation at Risk: The Impact of the...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) introduced legislation that would protect Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs and personnel, and the U.S. aviation industry as a whole, from future shutdowns of the Federal Government.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today pinned FAA Astronaut Wings on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crewmembers, Test Pilots Mark “Forger" Stucky and Fredrick “CJ" Sturckow. Last year’s historic spaceflight marked the nation’s return to space on an American-made rocket, and paves the way for future travel to space with commercial spaceflight participants.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Today’s first hearing in the 116th Congress of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee highlighted the importance of finding solutions to America’s infrastructure needs; solutions that include the safe integration of innovative technologies and reducing the length of the project delivery process.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Today, we hold the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s first hearing of the 116th Congress. We are starting off by sounding the alarm bells - investing in America’s infrastructure cannot wait.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the so-called “Green New Deal" resolution.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), joined with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to reintroduce S. 383, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act. The legislation is cosponsored ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement about the Green New Deal resolution introduced in the Senate by Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the EPW Committee.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Tomorrow the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold its first hearing of the 116th Congress on, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure Cannot Wait". The hearing will examine the current state of the Nation’s highways, bridges, transit systems, ports, and airports, the trillion-dollar backlog of maintenance and repair needs, and the increasing costs of Federal inaction.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s hearing entitled, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure Cannot Wait":
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure wrote a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen M. Nielsen, expressing their opposition to a request from the Governor of Puerto Rico to waive the Jones Act for ten years...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) announced the following members of EPW's four subcommittees, during the 116th Congress.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-- Today, the United States House of Representatives passed five bills from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. These pieces of legislation will help the Pacific Northwest prepare for catastrophic earthquakes, require Congressional notification of commuter rail safety assessments, require public buildings to accommodate breastfeeding mothers, and establish a commission to commemorate Route 66.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on the introduction of the Fairness for Every Driver Act.
