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March 10, 2017

The Weekly Trek

March 10, 2017

Top Political News

  • U.S. added 235,000 jobs in February; unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent. Washington Post
  • Trump issues revised travel ban. The Hill
  • GOP Health Plan Advances After Clearing Two House Committees. Wall Street Journal
  • Policy primer: What’s in the GOP’s healthcare plan. The Hill
  • Lawmakers aim to assemble omnibus package by end of month. E&E
  • All of Trump’s executive actions so far. Politico
  • Kate Brown shuffles staff ‘to respond nimbly’ to federal policies. Oregonian
  • The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics. Politico

Transportation

  • Engineers Give America’s Infrastructure D+, Again. Governing
  • Trump suggests 90-day deadline for states to start infrastructure projects: report. The Hill
  • Senate panel considers how to fund Trump’s $1T infrastructure package. The Hill
  • U.S. Airports Say They Need $100 Billion Over Five Years. Bloomberg
  • States Aren’t Waiting for Trump to Seek Funds for Infrastructure. Bloomberg
  • Global rail traffic forecast for continued growth. International Railway Journal
  • Automakers Near a Victory on Rollback of Fuel Standards. NY Times
  • Texas Central fights legislators’ efforts to kill high-speed rail project. Progressive Railroading
  • Cars Will Talk to One Another. Exactly How Is Less Certain. NY Times
  • Crashing Drones Into Test Dummies for Safety. Bloomberg
  • Oregon congressman joins Washington colleagues in opposing air traffic control privatization. Portland Business Journal

Energy & Natural Resources

  • Federal fire policy may be based on faulty science. E&E
  • The Clean Power Plan is gone — and there’s no ‘replace’. E&E
  • Lawmakers approve bills to overhaul agency’s use of science. E&E
  • CO2 not ‘primary contributor’ to warming — Pruitt. E&E
  • Senate passes bill ending Obama-era land rule. The Hill
  • Tensions Grow as Solar Projects Supplant Farmland. Wall Street Journal
  • The Road to Water Rule Rewrite Paved With Legal Potholes: Lawyers. BNA
  • Land swap spurred: Mt. Hood bill clears House. Hood River News
  • Utility-scale projects pushed solar power to record heights in Oregon in 2016. Portland Business Journal
  • Port of Vancouver narrowly votes to keep oil-by-rail terminal project alive. Portland Business Journal

Labor

  • The Future of the Department of Labor Under Trump. The Atlantic
  • Republican Health Plan Would Delay, Not Repeal, ‘Cadillac Tax’. Wall Street Journal
  • Who’s to Blame for the Trucker Shortage? Wall Street Journal
  • Republicans launch new tactic in latest attack on federal unions. Washington Post
  • Democrats wage uphill battle against bill targeting federal-union representatives. Washington Post
  • Will Trump Succeed in Dividing Organized Labor? Atlantic

Taxation, Trade, & Defense

  • McConnell: Tax reform unlikely by August. The Hill
  • Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to CNBC: We’ll be ‘aggressive’ on trade and fix bad deals. CNBC
  • Building Trade Walls. NY Times
  • To Reduce Trade Deficit, White House Wants Partners to Buy American. Wall Street Journal
  • Comey briefs Hill leaders amid outcry over Trump’s wiretapping claim. Politico

Tribes

  • Judge Rules Against Native American Tribes Seeking to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline. Fortune
  • Interior Secretary says he’ll treat Native American tribes as ‘equals’. UPI
  • American Indians to march on White House in rally for rights. Washington Post
  • Kennewick Man: Build bridges to prevent a repeat of ill will. Seattle Times

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