March 12, 2013
Support in Congress for the reintroduced Safe & Efficient Transportation Act (HR 612) had doubled to 12 co-sponsors within three weeks of its introduction, with four Democrats and eight Republicans now on record as supporting the bill. FRA,...
February 4, 2013
On January 7, the H-2B Workforce Litigation Committee, in which FRA participates, filed an appeal brief with the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging Judge Legrome Davis’s unfavorable decision on our challenge to the...
January 9, 2013
“We have to remind lawmakers that, in truth, bigger trucks would come at huge taxpayer expense while threatening lives on the highways and wrecking our roads and bridges,” Michael Gaynor, a national field director for GoRail, told the...
November 13, 2012
We have word that there is a substantial possibility that Congress will consider a permanent legislative solution to the question of requiring point-source permitting for forest roads during the forthcoming “lame duck” session, most...
October 22, 2012
On November 6, the United States will hold a General Election that we feel will have important consequences for the forest industry and the wood supply chain that supports it. We urge all of our members, not only to vote, but to ensure that their...
September 30, 2012
Although no one expects a fundamental retooling of the federal tax code this year, tax reform is emerging as a highly visible priority for both parties in the next Congress, with dialogue centering on lowering and flattening income tax rates and...
August 30, 2012
The August 19 Wall Street Journal profiled the state of a major breakthrough in bringing back the blight-devastated American Chestnut: “Chestnut trees whose lives began as smudges on a Petri dish are growing in upstate New York, their genes...
August 8, 2012
On August 1, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee voted unanimously to approve a very slightly modified version of Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s (R-Washington) Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act (HR 2541), which would...
July 30, 2012
On July 6, President Obama signed the long-awaited Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill, known as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (“MAP-21”), concluding a much delayed and highly controversial process—...
July 3, 2012
On June 14, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to adopt an amendment to the 2013 Labor/Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill that would block the Department of Labor from spending funds to enforce its new H-2B Program Rule or H-2B...
