By US DOT Newswire | Mar 29, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Following the Senate's action this afternoon to pass the House of Representatives' 90-day stop gap extension of transportation programs, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: Statement of Chairman Boxer FY 2013 EPA Budget Hearing March 22, 2012 I would like to begin by welcoming Administrator Jackson to this oversight hearing on the 2013 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA is charged with implementing critical public health and environmental protections, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senior Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today joined with more than 80 Members of the House of Representatives to introduce the bipartisan job-creating Senate transportation bill that passed last week by a vote of 74 to 22 and called on House Republicans to abandon their partisan transportation bill and bring the Senate bill up for immediate consideration.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood called on the House of Representatives to take up and pass the Senate's bipartisan surface transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21).
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following speech today at the Rally for Roads, sponsored by...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a letter sent today to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2012
News Release: Statement of Chairman Barbara Boxer "Lessons from Fukushima One Year Later... NRC's Implementation of Recommendations for Enhancing Nuclear Reactor Safety in the 21st Century" March 15, 2012 A year ago this week in Japan, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of the Japan, triggering a tsunami ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 14, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the following statement today after the Senate voted 74 to 22 to pass the surface transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said she sees "a clear path forward" for bringing the transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), to final passage.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - According to a new analysis released this afternoon by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Republican Leadership’s surface transportation bill that the House is expected to act on later this week would bankrupt the Highway Trust Fund by 2016 and create a $78 billion funding shortfall over a ten-year period.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement after the Administration unveiled its Fiscal Year 2013 budget...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Tonight, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor in opposition to controversial non-germane amendments to the surface transportation bill, as well as other procedural tactics led by Republican Senators that have delayed consideration of S. 1813, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Committee, issued the following statement today after the Senate voted to proceed with the surface transportation bill. The final vote was 85-11.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan markup today on the surface transportation legislation.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today put its final seal of approval on a four-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that will continue to ensure rural air service to communities in West Virginia and across the country through the Essential Air Service (EAS) program.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Committee, issued the following statement regarding progress on surface transportation legislation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement on President Obama’s State of the Union Address...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today called a letter signed by more than 1,000 organizations in support of legislation to rebuild the nation's transportation systems "historic in its breadth and width."
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the President's State of the Union Address tonight...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement in response the General Services Administration's (GSA) announcement of its intent to award a contract to design and construct a new federal courthouse in Los Angeles.
