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Five Cabinet members push infrastructure before Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

The Trump administration sent five Cabinet secretaries — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry — to a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on March 13 to talk up its infrastructure proposals, but they didn’t seem to be enough to get […]

March 28, 2018

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NTSB stops, delays thousands of investigations due to government shutdown

The federal government shutdown has been in effect for nearly two weeks and has so far resulted in 18,481 furloughs in the U.S. Department of Transportation and the suspension of most DOT programs not safety-related. Many DOT administrations have stopped social media and web interactions because no one is available to monitor them, and ARTBA […]

October 14, 2013

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NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman to speak at Senate Commerce Committee shutdown hearing

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman will speak Friday at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the impacts of the government shutdown. The shutdown resulted in 18,481 furloughs in the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as the suspension of most programs not safety-related, the cessation of most DOT web […]

October 10, 2013

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Senate Commerce Committee to meet Tuesday about private transportation funding

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss potential private sector sources of transportation infrastructure funding, according to a report from The Hill. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) said Tuesday that lawmakers need to make a bipartisan effort to put in place transportation funding. “Congress has shown neither […]

September 24, 2013

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Transportation Committee to hold confirmation hearing for Foxx nomination

[Update: This report originally noted May 23 as the date of the confirmation hearing but has been updated to reflect the correct date, May 22.] The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a confirmation meeting on May 22 for President Obama’s Secretary of Transportation nominee, Anthony Foxx, The Hill reported. Obama nominated Charlotte, […]

May 16, 2013

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Senate committee on transportation to move quickly on Foxx nomination, Rockefeller says

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said Monday that his panel would move quickly to hold a confirmation hearing on President Obama’s nomination of Anthony Foxx as the next Secretary of Transportation, The Hill reported. Though Rockefeller pushed for National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman as the nominee for transportation […]

April 30, 2013

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Begeman named to Surface Transportation Board

President Obama said he will nominate Ann Begeman, the Republican staff director at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to be the third member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the Journal of Commerce reports. Begeman will replace Charles D. Nottingham, the former STB chairman who is now the sole Republican board member, according […]

January 28, 2011

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Begeman named to Surface Transportation Board

President Obama said he will nominate Ann Begeman, the Republican staff director at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to be the third member of the Surface Transportation Board, the Journal of Commerce reports.

January 26, 2011