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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday.

Policy

Duffy: Air traffic control overhaul to cost $31.5 billion

House appropriators marking up fiscal 2026 Transportation-HUD bill on Thursday

By Valerie Yurk
Posted July 16, 2025 at 5:50pm

Wreckage from American Airlines Flight 5342 is pulled from the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Feb. 3. The plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29, killing 67 people.

Congress

Lawmakers mull a pricey air traffic control ‘wish list’

By Valerie Yurk
Posted July 14, 2025 at 3:15pm
Bryan Bedford, confirmed Wednesday to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, is shown here at his Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing in June.

Congress

Senate confirms Bedford to head FAA

By Valerie Yurk
Posted July 9, 2025 at 4:04pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters before heading to the House chamber for a procedural vote on Wednesday.

Congress

GOP leaders work to convince House holdouts on budget package

By David Lerman, Lia DeGroot, David Jordan and Sandhya Raman
Posted July 2, 2025 at 4:32pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, flanked by Sens. John Barrasso and Michael D. Crapo, speaks to reporters after the Senate passed the reconciliation package on Tuesday.

‘Big, beautiful’ budget reconciliation package passes Senate

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 1, 2025 at 12:13pm, Updated at 12:49pm
Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is seen with panel ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., before the start of a hearing on January 15. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate’s spectrum proposal raises aviation safety question

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 16, 2025 at 4:48pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at a news conference on June 4, flanked by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., left, and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

CBO: GOP budget bill would take from the poor, give to the rich

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 12, 2025 at 2:58pm, Updated at 3:43pm
“Our country deserves high-speed rail that makes us proud — not boondoggle trains to nowhere," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.

With high-speed rail stuck in the station, Brightline still moving

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 9, 2025 at 9:35am
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks during a news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., also appear.

CBO pegs ‘big, beautiful’ bill price tag at $2.4T

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted June 4, 2025 at 1:20pm, Updated at 2:33pm
Sen. Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho, talks with reporters in the Capitol after the House passed the "one big, beautiful bill" on May 22.

Delicate balancing act for Senate on reconciliation tax package

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 2, 2025 at 12:00pm