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Feb 13, 2012 3:14PM GMTThe surface transportation bill needs additional funding, so where are we going to get the pay-fors? We’ve heard them coming from budget offsets for IRA accounts, leaking underground tanks, offshore drilling, and anywhere else the congressional financing committees can find some spare change...
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Feb 3, 2012 7:16PM GMTThe combative congressman from Oregon, Democrat Peter DeFazio, took the Republican majority of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to task for not giving Democrats enough time to read the 458-page American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act. He asked, how many members —...
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Jan 16, 2012 2:08PM GMTThere were no reports of dancing in the streets of Detroit or Windsor, Ontario. or the far-flung reaches of Michigan and Ohio, but there were many people who went to bed last week with the comforting thought that Matty Moroun finally got what was coming to him. A Wayne County judge Thursday morning...
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Dec 21, 2011 8:27PM GMTThere is nothing on the books that President Obama can’t keep Alan Bersin at the head of Customs and Border Protection by making him a recess appointee for the second time, but it’s the longest of long shots, the hailest of Hail Marys, and the hottest poker to pull out of the fire. The...
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Nov 16, 2011 3:33PM GMTThis just in from the “Closing the Barn Door after the Horse Escaped” department, Congress is saying “never again” to the U.S. flag cargo preference fiasco last summer. You may recall that the Maritime Administration drew fire from just about the entire U.S. shipping...
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Oct 24, 2011 7:41PM GMTRemember the Rotterdam Rules? It’s been two years since the U.S. and 19 other United Nations members signed the convention, designed to govern cargo liability on any leg of an intermodal move of ocean cargo — the first door-to-door liability regime. It took six years to negotiate the...
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Jul 22, 2011 1:29PM GMTIt’s probably a good thing that fictional characters usually keep away from the business of Congress, but J.K. Rowling’s favorite wizard briefly swooped into a U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works hearing on Thursday. Terrence M. O’Sullivan, president Laborers International...
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Jun 28, 2011 2:43PM GMTThe federal government appears to be at war with itself over maritime policy. Last week, the Department of Energy announced that it waived the Jones Act requirement for transporting oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to U.S. destinations. Jones Act supporters rose up, and DOE reversed course...
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Jun 20, 2011 2:12PM GMTThis is about a belt buckle, two airports and the Transportation Security Administration. I’m not a frequent traveler, and I plead ignorance about some of TSA’s rules for air passengers. But the treatment I got at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, and Dallas-Fort Worth...
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Apr 28, 2011 8:48PM GMTAmericans are a little schizophrenic about fat. On one hand it's a bad thing. First lady Michelle Obama is leading the charge against childhood obesity. The Centers for Disease Control said that in 2009, 31 states reported obesity rates among their citizens of 25 percent or more. On the other hand...
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Apr 22, 2011 7:37PM GMTThat chocolate bunny you bought for Easter cost more this year. There has been a flood of bad news about sweet stuff which has played hob with chocolatiers and other confectioners. The civil war in Ivory Coast pushed the price of cocoa beans to at 30-year high in February, although most of this...
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Mar 18, 2011 9:03PM GMTAmong the thousands of bills piled up before Congress this year, you'll find the BABE RUTH Act. Something to memorialize a Baltimore-born Red Sox pitcher who hit some home runs in New York? Nope. Turns out it's the Build America Bonds Extension for Rural and Urban Transportation and Highways Act,...
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