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Eugene Mulero

Eugene Mulero

Senior Reporter

Eugene Mulero is a senior reporter at Transport Topics where he reports on Congress, trends in intermodal connectivity and federal elections.


Government, Business

Lawmakers to Unveil $8.2 Billion Bill That Deepens Ports Ahead of Panama Canal Expansion

House and Senate transportation leaders said they would unveil an $8.2 billion water policy bill that would approve the deepening of U.S. ports to accommodate larger ships traveling through an expanded Panama Canal next year.

May 12, 2014
Government, Business

House Subcommittee Approves $52 Billion Transportation, Housing Spending Bill

House appropriators on May 7 easily approved a $52 billion spending bill that would fund transportation and housing programs in fiscal 2015.

May 8, 2014
Government, Business

Senate EPW Panel to Mark Up Transportation Bill May 15

The top transportation policy writers in the Senate said they would introduce a six-year transportation bill May 12 and scheduled the bill鈥檚 committee consideration for May 15, more than two weeks after the Obama administration unveiled its four-year proposal.

May 8, 2014
Government, Business

Boxer to Unveil Long-Term Transportation Bill

The top transportation authorizer in the Senate said she would unveil a long-term transportation bill May 8, responding to concerns raised by industry and government officials over a dwindling federal highway account that supports infrastructure projects.

May 7, 2014
Government, Business

House Transportation Bill Funds Highway Account, Safety Programs

House appropriators unveiled a transportation bill May 6 that would provide more than $52 billion for infrastructure and housing programs in fiscal 2015, and fund a key federal highway account if congressional policy writers pass a new highway bill this year.

May 6, 2014
Government, Business

Senate Panel to Review Cash-Strapped Highway Trust Fund May 6

Senate tax writers will examine ways to keep the Highway Trust Fund鈥檚 road and transit programs funded before the account runs out of money later this summer.

May 5, 2014
Government, Business

Foxx to Talk Transportation Funding at May 7 Senate Hearing

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will make his first congressional appearance next week since unveiling a four-year, $302 billion transportation proposal this week, in an effort to press lawmakers to advance a transportation bill this year.

May 1, 2014
Government, Business

Foxx Sends Four-Year Transportation Bill to Congress

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sent Congress a four-year transportation bill that relies on business tax reforms as a way to boost funds for a federal highway account that is quickly running out of money.

April 29, 2014
Government, Business, Safety

Preliminary NTSB Report Outlines Events in FedEx Calif. Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report April 25 confirming the sequence of events in the fatal crash involving a FedEx Freight truck and a bus in Orland, Calif., earlier this month.

April 25, 2014
Government, Business

House Panel Sets Public-Private Partnership Roundtable for April 30

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee鈥檚 Panel on Public-Private Partnerships has set an April 30 roundtable hearing to examine how states have applied 鈥淧3鈥 set ups to fund infrastructure projects.

April 25, 2014