House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Is it after yet? Can you fix the roads, the farm bill, daylight savings, anything? And there's a bill sitting there.

It passed the House Transportation Committee back in May, 62 to 2.

You can't get 62 members of Congress to agree on lunch, so it's probably a pretty good bill.

And when it does come up, one of the ways it pays for itself is a brand new annual fee on electric cars.

Now, he has asked for a waiver, meaning can I please serve two more years, and that is not unheard of.

In fact, Sam Graves from Missouri got a waiver just this last time to continue to serve as chairman of the Transportation Committee because he had done some bills, they had made some progress, et cetera.

But it's not like they handed out like candy.

So yet to be seen.

maybe front and center if patty murray has those at the front of her mind and i think she's said in the past like when uh the trump administration was preparing to come in there was some material that we were reading that they were thinking about maybe dismantling some of the work being done at the hanford site and patty murray in a statement to us we were doing a story on that and patty murray said i'm not gonna let them mess with hanford don't let them so like she she does have the priorities of the state in mind which is kind of interesting when she's in a position this powerful

Representative Rick Larson of Everett also now expected to lead the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Sound Transit's counting on some assistance from him for light rail funding.

Very interesting.

Governor Tim Walz speaking about his relationship with Melissa Hortman.

I went back to think about one of the first times I met a young state legislator, Melissa Hortman, when I had just been elected to Congress and had the privilege of being on the Transportation Committee with the then new chairman, Jim Oberstar, from Minnesota.

And that new legislature already knew that she came to us and said, we need federal money for our highways in Minnesota, and there's a special one out, 610, that needs to be done.

Waltz calls Hortman's death a politically motivated assassination.

Webster's term expires in January and he is not running for reelection.

Hatsy Stefanu also worked as a research assistant with the House Transportation Committee for Representative Troy Nels and interned for Representative Kat Kamek, Representative of Florida.

It's just a who's who of the Republican dipshits that this guy's worked for, and these are his Nazi associations and beliefs.

In a brief phone call Thursday, Hatsy Stefanu denied the Twitter account is his, but declined to comment further.

They're including the Judiciary Committee, which includes Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, a Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, and a Select Subcommittee on January 6th.

And then kind of in our world here in the railroading, he's also part of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which includes being chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipeline, and Hazardous Materials, and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Troy resides in Richmond, Texas, which I'm very familiar with, with his wife, Jill, and their daughters, Jenna, Cambry, and Tori.

And with that, I say welcome, Congressman, to the American Railroading Podcast.

Most members of Congress, if you're not on transportation and infrastructure, really don't understand everything about rail and you can't blame them.

I mean, they're not on the committee.

So I think it's important that if your member is on the transportation and infrastructure committee as a whole, that you inform and educate them so then they can reach out to their colleagues that serve on other committees that may not be fully aware of what the rail title really does in this reauthorization bill.

And I'll actually post a link to your website for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee so folks can see who's on the committee from their states, and then they can reach out to them that way

We're coming up to the end of September, right? That is the expiration of the current surface transportation reauthorization bill, the bipartisan infrastructure laws.

So the U.S. House of Representatives, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure unveiled and passed out of their committee a bipartisan reauthorization package.

That is a fantastic package for counties.

It increased funding for bridges, not only an increase in funding, but an increase in the direct funding to counties.

Because remember, FEMA reform is front and center in Congress.

And so the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Committee of Jurisdiction over FEMA, they passed the FEMA Act to make significant changes.

out of committee, almost, wasn't 100% support, I don't believe, but it was pretty much everybody.

Only three votes against, pretty bipartisan.