The committee held hearings yesterday the featured proponents from
infrastructure advocates, business, and labor. Speakers included
- Edward G. Rendell, Co-Chair of Building America’s Future and former governor of Pennsylvania,
- Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and
- Terry O’Sullivan, General President of the Laborers’ International Union of North America.
The T&I committee will be looking at three major bills,
one to address waterways
and ports,
one to address railroads,
and finally a reauthorization of the surface transportation programs (i.e. highways
and related automobile, trucking and transit
programs). The last surface
transportation reauthorization was only for two years, rather than the typical
five-year plan. The last Congress
punted, largely for lack of will or imagination to deal with the predicted shortfalls
in revenues for highway funding, for which they were criticized
by departing
Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood.
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