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American Shipper
April 12, 2018
Among the signatories to the memorandum of understanding, which instructs cabinet members and other federal departments to follow Trump's One Federal Decision proposal, were Elaine Chao, secretary of the Department of Transportation; the secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, HousingÃâà...
Transport Topics Online
April 12, 2018
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will continue to meet with and host briefings geared toward livestock haulers who are discontent with the electronic logging device rule, according to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. Chao, who testified before a House Transportation, Housing andÃâà...
Transport Topics Online
April 6, 2018
The timing of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao's appearance before the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee will take place shortly after the Republican-led Congress dismissed several of the White House's transportation proposals.
Transport Topics Online
March 30, 2018
Elaine Chao (left), Barbara Comstock Chao (left) joined Comstock to help launch the Northstar Boulevard TIGER grant project in Loudoun County, Va. (Monica Backmon/Northern Virginia Transportation Authority). Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao joined elected officials and transportationÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
March 29, 2018
Cabinet Secretaries Elaine Chao (Transportation), Wilbur Ross (Commerce), Alexander Acosta (Labor), Sonny Perdue (Agriculture), and Rick Perry (Energy) deliver their opening statements in a hearing entitled "Rebuilding Infrastructure in America: Administration Perspectives" hosted by Commerce.
Business Insider
March 20, 2018
Mitch McConnell, age 76, is the US Senate Majority Leader. He grew up in Alabama and Kentucky and became a senator for Kentucky in 1985. Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 2/14Ãâà...
The Week Magazine
March 19, 2018
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson alleged in a blog post Monday that Fox News removed him from air in 2014 at the request of Elaine Chao, who didn't like Erickson's criticisms of her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Chao held an influential position on the Newscorp board of directors at theÃâà...
Aggregates Manager (blog)
March 16, 2018
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao defended the Trump administration's infrastructure plan before a Senate committee March 1, where she met resistance from Democrats over the plan's call for speeding up environmental permits and its reliance on private funding. Meanwhile, some top RepublicanÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 6, 2018
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao testifies before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on President Donald Trump's trillion-dollar-plus plan to boost infrastructure, on Capitol Hill in... (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MoreÃâà...
Transport Topics Online
February 20, 2018
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao will maintain the national conversation on infrastructure funding with a pair of high-profile events next week. Chao is scheduled to deliver keynote remarks Feb. 28 at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' legislative meeting inÃâà...
Washington Examiner
February 13, 2018
Raising the federal gas tax to pay for transportation funding is "on the table," Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Tuesday. She said raising the tax, which has not been increased in 25 years, is not an ideal solution, but repairing the nation's roads is so important that the Trump administration wouldÃâà...
The Intercept
February 5, 2018
On June 6, 2016, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell joined his wife, Elaine Chao, now the U.S. secretary of transportation, at a ceremony on the Harvard Business School campus to dedicate ... Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao walks in a parade December 1, 2001 in the Chinatown section of New York City.
CNN
December 31, 1999
(CNN) Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao confirmed last week to lawmakers that President Donald Trump is personally lobbying House Speaker Paul Ryan to block federal funding for a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project. Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney of New York asked ChaoÃâà...
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