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Federal regulators and representatives of the rail and petroleum industries testified before a Congressional panel on February 26, 2014 on emerging safety regulations for transportation of crude by rail.

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House Thursday will restore transparency to the advertising of U.S. airline ticket prices and ensure that airfare advertisements are not forced to hide the costs of government from consumers.

U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene financed her first two congressional races largely with her Microsoft wealth.

Rep. Rick Larsen, WA-02, today praised the Environmental Protection Agency's move to stop the proposed Pebble Mine near Alaska's Bristol Bay.

Apparently "Napoleon Dynamite" didn't make a big enough impression on me because I wasn't as excited as some others in the newsroom when Pedro Celis announced today he will challenge freshman congresswoman Suzan DelBene for her District 1 seat.

I believe reading the mainstream media about Trans-Pacific Partnership and Fast Track Approval of international trade deals, might make you think "fast track" in the form of the Baucus-Camp bill in the U.S. Senate is dead because Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have pronounced that it is not going to happen in its present form.

U.S. lawmakers are expected to question regulators and rail industry officials on Wednesday about several recent fiery derailments, focusing on whether shipments from energy producing regions such as North Dakota's Bakken area are being handled safely.

In January, the Boeing Corporation bullied the members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers to accept a new contract forcing them to give up hard-won pensions, dismantle their health care, and reduce their wages.

The Department of Transportation outlined several steps Friday aimed at improving the safety of crude oil in trains after a series of derailments sparked concern from state and local officials.

In a meeting with local officials, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen said he has been doing his best to get federal agencies to speed up the process of tightening safety regulations on shipment of crude oil by rail.

Yesterday, the House passed a bill to undo the cuts to military pensions from the Murray-Ryan budget deal and to pay for this change by extending sequestration cuts to mandatory spending under Medicare for an additional year, to 2024 instead of 2023.

The National Business Aviation Association today welcomed passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of H.R.3578, bipartisan legislation to compel the Federal Aviation Administration to follow the long-established rulemaking process before implementing any mandatory pilot-screening requirement for obstructive sleep apnea as a condition for ... (more)

The U.S., House of Representatives, on a bipartisan 221-201 Tuesday vote, raised the national debt ceiling through March of 2015, but a Washington lawmaker broke with fellow Republican leaders to come down on the side of default.

The Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l issued the following statement in support of legislation that today passed the U.S. House of Representatives, which requires the Federal Aviation Administration to follow the appropriate rulemaking process in order to make any changes to medical certification for pilots and air traffic controllers with regard ... (more)

SCOOPLET CULBERTSON JOINS STORY: Lauren Culbertson is joining Story Partners as a director, the firm tells PI.

President Obama called for the release of two Americans, Kenneth Bae and Saeed Abedini , who have been held as prisoners in North Korea and Iran , respectively, due to religious intolerance.

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved an omnibus public lands bill which includes a provision to preserve Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness.