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Roadbuilding

Foxx to face eight major transportation issues

Anthony Foxx has been confirmed as the next Secretary of Transportation. Now what? Well, now he prepares to take on many of the same issues his predecessor, Ray LaHood, faced. And, according to a report from Politico, Foxx will inherit eight main issues: the sequester, highway funding, Amtrak reauthorization, NextGen, distracted driving, the Dreamliner review, […]

June 28, 2013

Business

Senate confirms Anthony Foxx as next Secretary of Transportation

In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Senate confirmed Anthony Foxx as Secretary of Transportation, our sister site Better Roads reported. Foxx succeeds Ray LaHood, who announced in January that he would step down as soon as a successor was found. There was little to no doubt that Foxx would earn the confirmation. He breezed through […]

June 28, 2013

Roadbuilding

Senate scheduled to vote on Foxx USDOT nomination this week

The Senate is set to vote this week on the confirmation of Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation, The Hill reported. According to the report, Foxx is expected to be easily confirmed after the Senate’s transportation committee unanimously approved the nomination earlier this month. Foxx’s May confirmation hearing with the committee, which concluded smoothly, as […]

June 24, 2013

Roadbuilding

Senate Transportation Committee approves Foxx nomination

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Monday unanimously approved the nomination of Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation. At the committee’s business meeting, where it considered Foxx for the USDOT position and Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce, Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) urged his colleagues to move quickly with the approval […]

June 11, 2013

Roadbuilding

Bauma: A Shapshot

Here’s a brief look at Bauma’s major equipment introductions.

June 6, 2013

Roadbuilding

Watch Foxx confirmation hearing live on webcast

We reported last week that the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Mayor Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation. The meeting–which will take place tomorrow, May 22, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time–will be broadcast live on the Senate Commerce Committee website. The committee’s website […]

May 21, 2013

Roadbuilding

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