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Joint Subcommittee Panels Hold Hearing on Pesticides and the Clean Water Act

News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture today held a joint oversight hearing on pesticides and the Clean Water Act.


Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Costello Statement on FAA Reauthorization Bill

News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved by a vote of 34-25 a controversial four-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authored by Republicans and introduced just five days ago.


Rahall Chides Choking Off Air Service to Rural Communities, Fights to Save American Jobs

News Release: Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today attempted to fend off efforts by Committee Republicans to decrease air passenger safety, cut American jobs, compromise the health and safety of workers and the flying...



Highways and Transit Panel Receives Testimony on Speeding up Transportation Delivery Process

News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit today held a hearing on “Accelerating the Project Delivery Process: Eliminating Bureaucratic Red Tape and Making Every Dollar Count."


News Release: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Opening Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Full Committee Hearing: "Nomination of Daniel M. Ashe to be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service." Feb. 15, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today, the Senate Committee on Environment ...


Chairman Boxer and Ranking Member Inhofe Announce Subcommittees for the 112th Congress

News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-OK) are pleased to announce the membership of the Environment and Public Works subcommittees for the 112th Congress...


Transportation Panel Gathers Information in Beckley

News Release: -Beckley First Stop on Nationwide Transportation Tour-


News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, made the following statement today after President Obama released his Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposal...


Rahall: Administration’s Surface Transportation Plan Keeps Economy on the Road to Recovery

News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) today released the following statement after the Obama Administration unveiled its comprehensive plan to invest $556 billion in a six-year surface transportation bill...



Subcommittee Panels Examine BP National Commission Report

News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment today held a joint oversight hearing to examine the recommendations from the members of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater...


Rahall to Host Native American Roundtable

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced he is inviting tribal leaders to a Native American Transportation, Infrastructure, and Economic Development Roundtable.



Rahall: America Needs Jobs, Not Resolutions

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), Democratic Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today called on Congress to stop wasting time and taxpayer dollars on partisan resolutions and instead return to focusing on creating American jobs. Speaking...


Rahall Fights to Defend Air Service to Rural Communities

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), Democratic leader of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today fought to defend critical Federal funding that helps link rural communities to our Nation’s aviation system. Speaking at a Subcommittee on Aviation hearing on...


Aviation Subcommittee Holds Hearing on FAA Reauthorization

News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation today received testimony from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator J. Randolph Babbitt on the reauthorization of the FAA.


News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, names Mary Kerr as the EPW Committee's Communications Director.


News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and other EPW Committee members released the following statement in response to a proposed bill released today by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) in the Senate and Representatives Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY) in the House that would undermine our protections from carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act...