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A House lawmaker is pressing colleagues to advance legislation that takes aim at cargo theft in the rail sector.

The administration defended the president’s power to impose global tariffs, arguing to a federal appeals court that it should overturn a decision finding the levies unconstitutional.

Federal lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill June 18 that would give dry bulk haulers a 10% axle weight variance, aiming to ease penalties tied to load shifting during transport.

“It would be a shame to build these facilities and then all of a sudden you have to scale back on the most important part of it, which is people,” a Ford vice president told reporters.

Committees in the GOP-led Senate took aim at commercial transportation and emissions policies as they seek to finalize their response to the House-passed procedural budget package.

A Senate committee on June 11 approved the nomination of Sean McMaster to become administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.

Bipartisan legislation seeking to enhance consumer protections in the moving industry was recently approved by a Senate committee.

A massive House-passed tax and budget measure promises to return a federal account central to transportation maintenance projects to solvency.

The transportation panel in the U.S. House of Representatives recently reviewed proposals from its colleagues as a way to inform an upcoming multiyear highway policy measure.

House Republicans have proposed using their tax and spending bill to end duty-free imports of cheap foreign goods, a perk companies have used to grow their U.S. business for the past decade.