January 17, 2020
This week, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Bruce Westerman (R-AR) sent a letter to their colleagues urging them to finalize their priorities for the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)… Continue Reading
January 16, 2020
Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the following statements regarding the newly-released report on the certification process for the Boeing 737 MAX.
"Our Committee's investigation has already revealed multiple junctures at which the current certification process failed, and as I've made clear, I intend to propose legislative fixes to ensure safety always comes first,"… Continue Reading
January 15, 2020
The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) during today's hearing titled: "Oversight of Working Conditions for Airline Ground Workers."
Chair DeFazio:
Thank you, Chair Larsen, for calling today's hearing on working conditions for the tens of thousands of employees who are intrinsic to the operations of an airline-the workers … Continue Reading
October 29, 2019
On Wednesday, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will testify before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Over his shoulder will be family members of the 346 victims of the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, including the Massachusetts parents of Samya Stumo.
Sadly, we have been here before. In 2009, after 50 people died in the Colgan Air flight 3407 crash near Buffalo, N.Y, our committee worked in a bipartisan way to address safety issues raised by that crash,… Continue Reading
October 08, 2019
Regardless of your political ideology, we can all agree that America's infrastructure network is essential to our quality of life and to the nation's economy. Our expansive national network of highways, bridges, tunnels, railways, waterways, and airports is capable of providing all Americans - from those living in the largest cities to those in the smallest towns - with extraordinary freedom of mobility and unprecedented opportunity.
Infrastructure provides the backbone of the U.S. economy that… Continue Reading
May 31, 2019
Across our country, in communities large and small, our outdated and oversubscribed infrastructure is at a breaking point, the result of years of federal underinvestment in transportation and a lack of political courage in Washington, D.C. Nowhere is that more apparent than in New York and New Jersey, where I recently got a firsthand look at the largest infrastructure project in our nation, the Gateway Program.
I was joined not only by members of Congress from New York and New Jersey who have b… Continue Reading
June 19, 2019
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May 08, 2019
May 08, 2019
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable Kevin McCarthy
Speaker Republican Leader
House of Representatives House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515
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April 09, 2019
Full text of the letter can be found here.… Continue Reading
