By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg said, "In the last few months of his life, Frank did something that has become all too rare in Washington: he negotiated bipartisan legislation to solve a major problem facing our country. Frank worked with Senator Vitter to develop the Chemical Safety Improvement Act, a ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement in response to the President’s speech today in Chattanooga, Tennessee...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement after receiving significant commitments from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding improvements to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) process of handling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement following the President's speech today in Jacksonville, Florida...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - In a letter sent today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Tim Johnson (D-SD), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works' Republican staff have released a report entitled, "Critical Thinking on Climate Change: Questions to Consider Before Taking Regulatory Action and Implementing Economic Policies." The report was initially released in conjunction with last week's full EPW Committee Hearing, "Climate Change: It's Happening Now" on July 18, 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Full Committee Hearing: "Oversight Hearing on Implementation of MAP-21's TIFIA Program Enhancements" July 24, 2013 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) We are here to conduct oversight of the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program, which ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Full Committee Hearing: "Hearing on EPA Nominations" July 23, 2013 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will consider the nomination of Ken Kopocis to be Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water at the ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Ms. Nancy Stoner, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with three other Senators. The letter asked EPA to refrain ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today responded to news reports that the U.S. Department of Interior is planning a second offshore lease sale for wind energy in the Atlantic Ocean on September 4, 2013. The first sale is scheduled for July ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - How public-private partnerships (P3s) could be used to help cost-effectively meet the real estate needs of federal agencies will be the topic of a roundtable discussion next Tuesday with the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, the General Services Administration (GSA), and members of the private sector real estate community.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the full Senate confirmed Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: Statement of Barbara Boxer Full Committee Hearing: "Climate Change: It's Happening Now" July 18, 2013 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today's hearing will focus on climate change and the serious threat it poses to our nation. The body of evidence is overwhelming, the world's leading scientists agree, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Senator Barbara Boxer's Remarks... EPA Headquarters Naming Ceremony in Honor of President Clinton (Remarks as Prepared for Delivery) Welcome to this beautiful building, which in about an hour will forever be known as the William Jefferson Clinton Building. We all know how a bill becomes a law, and this ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, criticized the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) response to a June 11, 2013 letter he and four other Committee Republicans sent to EPA Senior Policy Advisor Ken Kopocis, regarding the agency's work on the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment (Assessment).
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, commended the 12 Attorneys General (AG) who today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to comply with the law in responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, related to specific "sue-and-settle" agreements with environmental groups.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today sent a letter to President Obama requesting the Administration provide witnesses to Thursday's EPW hearing, "Climate Change: It's Happening Now." EPW Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has excluded any federal witnesses.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell will join together tomorrow to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Public Works Administration and highlight the need for greater investment...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Committee Passes Bill to Cut Waste in Federal Real Property Management;
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made a statement after learning that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew their participation in a panel moderated by the National Resources Defense Council detailing how third party ...
