Tag: transportation committee

Roadbuilding

Equipment operators, other positions go unfilled by Miss. DOT

The Mississippi Department of Transportation wants legislative help to fill 354 job vacancies, including for equipment operators, according to The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger. MDOT Executive Director Melinda McGrath has asked the state legislature to give her flexibility to change employee positions and salaries and give performance-based compensation, the newspaper reports. McGrath told the state House’s Transportation […]

September 12, 2017

Roadbuilding

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants carbon tax to fund transportation infrastructure

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing a carbon charge on industrial polluters to help pay for the state’s transportation infrastructure. Inslee hopes to fund a $12 billion plan with bonds, fees and a carbon charge. The market-based carbon pollution charge would generate $7 billion over 12 years, according to an article in The Olympian. The fee would generate the […]

December 25, 2014

Roadbuilding

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

Safety

House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal: Funding at last or financial road to ruin?

Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) and Committee leaders on July […]

July 11, 2011

Roadbuilding

House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal

Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin."

July 11, 2011