By US DOT Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal today to use the Clean Water Act (CWA) in order to block the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Australian government's decision to repeal a tax on carbon emissions.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week to review U.S. policy in the Arctic and how the agencies with the largest presence in the Arctic intend to implement such policy.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today introduced the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, which would update the price of the duck stamp for the first time since 1991.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led six Senators in sending a letter today to David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States. In the letter, the Senators request information regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent crashed hard drive, which led to the agency's failure to preserve federal records.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Today the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved several bills related to the regulation of the Nation’s waters - legislation to provide greater regulatory certainty, protect and maintain the balanced federal-state regulatory partnership, and prevent overreach by the federal government.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that they would withdraw a rule that would allow the agency to garner wages from individual citizens.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a follow-up letter to Dr. H. Christopher Frey, Chair of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Review Panel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), responding to CASAC's ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved H.R. 5021, the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014, legislation that extends federal surface transportation programs and ensures the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund through May 2015. The legislation, which was approved by a vote of 367 to 55, was cosponsored by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA).
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will meet with transportation startups at tech incubator 1776’s Washington, DC campus tomorrow to discuss innovation, technology, and the future of transportation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers in voting to pass a bill in the House that will help keep American workers on the job building the nation’s transportation network.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the following statement after the House of Representatives approved a plan that would provide a temporary patch for the Highway Trust Fund until May 2015, undermining the effort to pass a long-term transportation reauthorization bill this year.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2014
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), will mark up the following legislation at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: The Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), will hold a hearing next week to examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) expanded interpretation of its veto authority under the Clean Water Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Bipartisan legislation to uphold the federal-state partnership to regulate the Nation’s waters and prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from implementing a rule that broadens the scope of the Clean Water Act and expands the federal government’s regulatory power was introduced in the House today by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement on H.R. 5021, the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014, a bill introduced in the House by Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), and cosponsored by Shuster...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA) will host a Subcommittee roundtable policy discussion next week to examine the General Services Administration’s (GSA) leasing program and opportunities to take advantage of the current real estate market and reduce costs to the taxpayer.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, made the following statement regarding the bipartisan proposals from both the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee to fund the highway trust fund through May of 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the letter, the Senators request that the Agency withdraw its direct final rule on administrative wage garnishment, which would allow EPA to collect money from private citizens without first obtaining a court order.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) decision to omit Republican amendments when he filed cloture on the bipartisan Sportsmen's Act earlier today. Vitter had filed amendments to the Sportsmen's bill to give states more authority of red snapper stocks.
