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March 26, 2024Ranking Member Larsen Statement on Collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge
EVERETT, WA - Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the statement below following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. “My heart goes out to the victims of the bridge collapse early this morning in Baltimore and their loved ones. Thank you to the first responders who immediately arrived on the scene and continue to search for survivors,” Ranking Member Larsen said. “While National Transportation Safety Board inve… Continue Reading
March 25, 2024
Ranking Member Larsen Statement on Boeing Leadership Transitions
EVERETT, WA - Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the following statement after Boeing announced a series of leadership transitions on Monday. “The Boeing Company needs to get back to what it has done best: designing and engineering the safest and best airplanes in the world. That starts with Boeing getting back to its roots as an engineering company and away from its multi-decades focus of being a financial services company. “Mo… Continue Reading
March 21, 2024
ICYMI: Larsen, Napolitano Oppose Republican Attack on the Clean Water Act on House Floor
— In case you missed it, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace Napolitano (D-CA) took to the House floor to oppose H.R. 7023, the Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act, which would reduce clean water protections for the nation’s rivers, streams, and wetlands and harm communities that depend on access to clean water. Their floor remarks can be found b… Continue Reading
Aviation safety and 5G can coexist, but stakeholders must work together
By Chairs DeFazio and Larsen The rollout of our country's 5G wireless network has been marked by delays, dysfunction and denial. It didn't have to be this way! In 2019, aviation stakeholders, policymakers like us and safety advocates loudly warned it would be a grave mistake to turn on 5G without first ensuring that interference from these powerful networks wouldn't adversely impact aviation safety. Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission ignored and even mocked these concern… Continue Reading
November 23, 2021
Thanks to President Biden, infrastructure is bipartisan again — it needs to stay that way
July 21, 2021
Wall Street is boosting profits in railroads with new technology. But it’s ignoring the drawbacks
In a commentary published in Fortune earlier this month, Ike Brannon and Michael F. Gorman took great liberties in trying to debunk my concerns with precision scheduled railroading (PSR). Please allow me to set the record straight. I have served on the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for 34 years, crafting public policy through seven different presidential administrations, both Democratic and Republican. Freight transportation is critical to our economy. The ability to… Continue Reading