By US DOT Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Statement of. The Honorable Andrè Carson. Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. July 6, 2016. Good morning. Welcome to today’s hearing about the use of independent leasing authority. On behalf...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will hold a hearing next week on two Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports to be released on Tuesday that focus on federal leasing.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2016
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security will hold a joint hearing next week to examine the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the smuggling of nuclear materials in U.S. ports and other port security risks. The hearing will focus on issues such as small vessel threats and container security.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: INHOFE ANNOUNCES LETTER OF 29 GOP SENATORS URGING ACTION ON WRDA, CALLS FOR MEMBERS TO SUBMIT WRDA AMENDMENTS TO THE COMMITTEE
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee; Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking member of the EPW Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight; Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), chairman of the EPW Subcommittee on ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2016
News Release: The FAA and general aviation (GA) groups’ #FlySafe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on best practices in calculating and predicting aircraft performance, and in operating within established aircraft limitations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Thomas Burke, deputy ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: NextGen is bringing new benefits to Los Angeles International Airport through a technology called Data Comm. Data Comm revolutionizes communications between air traffic controllers and pilots by replacing some traditional voice communications with digital information exchanges - like texting versus talking over the phone.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced staff changes for the Committee.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: President Obama today signed into law the “Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016." A House amendment to S. 2276 passed earlier this month, and the final legislation cleared the Senate last week. As the product of bipartisan work from the Transportation and...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, praised the decision Judge Scott Skavdahl of the U.S. District Court of Wyoming to strike down the Bureau of Land Management's final fracking rule from March 2015 to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $52,000 civil penalty against Amazon, Inc., for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ). Subcommittee on Aviation. Hearing on “FAA Oversight of Commercial Space Transportation". June 22, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Today we will be examining the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of commercial space transportation. We are at an exciting...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $78,000 civil penalty against Amazon, Inc., for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) released the following statement on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) final rule for the commercial uses of small drones...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Peter DeFazio released the following statement on the newly released FAA rules for commercial drones...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or “drones"), opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace. These new regulations work to harness new innovations safely, to spur job growth, advance critical scientific research and save lives.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), is scheduled to mark up the following measures at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 23, 2016 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the announcement that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant when its license expires.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a hearing next week on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) oversight of the commercial space transportation industry.
