House Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, a Minnesota Democrat, raised the possibility a day ealier.
It also operates the presidential retreat at Camp David and the White House Transportation Agency.
At the ceremony, he specifically recognized House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica, a Republican from Florida.
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Also, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House Transportation Infrastructure Committee, and U.S. Sen.
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The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) is extremely honored to be chosen as a White House Transportation Innovators Champion of Change.
Mike Parker, assistant secretary of the Army, told the House Transportation and Infrastructure panel that risk is everywhere and impossible to eliminate entirely.
The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is reportedly looking at moving a new, six-year highway appropriations bill out of committee some time this spring.
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However, you do not recognise the efforts of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to provide the necessary and deserved investment for our nation's aviation system.
On Dec. 4 the head of FEMA, Craig Fugate, told the House Transportation Committee that his agency had enough cash on hand to disburse aid until spring.
Then, Bud Shuster, the controversial House Transportation Committee chairman and author of one of the biggest pork-barrel spending bills in the history of Congress, had to leave his chairman post.
The agency said Tuesday that it will not make any representatives available to appear before a subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee because the committee lacks jurisdiction over the agency.
Mineta testified before a House transportation subcommittee.
"There's a TSA disaster every week, and the security meltdown gets more and more outrageous, " said Rep. John Mica, R-Florida, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, in a release put out by his office on Friday.
The approach had its share of supporters in the U.S. House of Representatives, namely with the leadership of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, but was ultimately rejected.
When this all began I never dreamed my work would start a national movement in urban revitalization, or that I would be receiving this incredible Transportation Innovators Champion of Change award from the White House and the Department of Transportation.
We strongly urge the House to pass bipartisan transportation legislation, as the Senate has.
"None of those ideas have ever gone anywhere in the House or Senate, " said a House Republican staff aide to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Along with the Mayor, we've got Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in the house.
Thank you to the White House and U.S. Department of Transportation for providing this opportunity to share the perspective of our industry.
Several participants in the White House meeting mentioned the importance of reauthorizing the federal surface transportation and aviation programs.
My wonderful Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, is in the house.
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The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
It is also the most expensive public transportation in the world, according to research compiled by the House of Commons library, but it does have one of the best-designed maps in transit history.
The House would make major cuts in planned spending for health, income security, transportation, education, and community development.
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And most importantly, an enclosed cockpit and in-house concocted gyroscopes will provide some safety assurance and stability to a form of transportation glorified for its uninhibited and dangerous nature.
The Senate leaders also said they are considering pairing the student loan bill with a long-stalled transportation funding measure known as the highway bill, which is still being negotiated between the House and Senate.
Last month, Rep. Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, came out against Federal backing for bike sharing, an already minor portion of the transportation budge but one that has helped several cities launch initiatives.
Mr. Trivelli, a 64-year-old retired Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker, said he had been staying in hotels paid for by FEMA since Sandy destroyed his house in Staten Island's Tottenville neighborhood.
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