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  • Legislative Outlook September 20, 2014

    Congress Puts Rail Safety on the Agenda

    Transportation Trades Department’s (TTD), of which TCU is a member, rail safety agenda got a boost last week when Senator Richard Blumenthal, along with three other Senators, included several reforms that rail labor has long championed in their Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2014. Some 130,000 miles of freight rail tracks crisscross the United States,

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  • Legislative Outlook September 20, 2014

    House Committee Approves Passenger Rail Reform Legislation

    The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today approved bipartisan legislation that improves the infrastructure, reduces costs, leverages private sector resources, creates greater accountability and transparency, and accelerates project delivery for Amtrak and the Nation’s passenger rail transportation system. The Committee approved by voice vote the Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2014, or PRRIA (H.R.

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  • Legislative Outlook August 3, 2014

    Passage of Carper-Corker-Boxer Amendment Forces Debate on Long-Term Transportation Bill

    Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), of which TCU is a member, issued a statement in reaction to the Senate’s passage of the Wyden-Hatch and Carper-Corker-Boxer Amendments to HR 5021. Click here to read the full statement from the TTD. Click here to read the TTD statement urging the house to pass

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  • Legislative Outlook June 14, 2014

    TCU Supports H.R. 4813

    3rd District Congressman Nick Rahall and 1st District Congressman David McKinley of West Virginia have introduced a bill to stop a new rule, proposed by the EPA, that would set caps on carbon emissions from existing coal fired power plants. Rahall and McKinley’s bill (H.R. 4813), which already has 73 cosponsors, would terminate the new

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  • Legislative Outlook June 14, 2014

    TTD Urges the House of Representatives to Vote NO on HR 4745

    In a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Edward Wytkind President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) of which TCU is a member, urged all members of the House to vote NO on an amendment offered by Representative Denham to the pending FY 15 T-HUD bill (H.R. 4745). This amendment would

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