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Press Releases

• DOT Issues Precedent-Setting Fines for Rochester, MN Tarmac Delay Incident (11/24/09)

• U.S. Secretary of Transportation Awards $9.4 Million for Mississippi and Missouri Transportation Improvements (11/23/09)

• New Study Shows Freight Rail Fuel Efficiency Up More Than 20 Percent Since 1999 (11/19/09)
  
  
• New Jersey Transit Joins FRA “Close Call” Pilot Program (11/19/09)
  
  
• Secretary LaHood Reminds Mariners of Best Practices Following Recent Attacks on the Maersk Alabama and M/V Harriett (11/19/09)
  
  
• DOT Small Business Vendor Day Focuses on Service Disabled Veteran Small Business Owners (11/18/09)
  
  
• September 2009 Passenger Airline Employment Down 4.4 Percent from September 2008 (11/17/09)

• U.S. Department of Transportation Releases New Action Plan to Address Motorcoach Safety Issues (11/16/09)

• August 2009 Airline Traffic Data: System Traffic Down 4.1 Percent from August 2008 (11/13/09)

• DOT Administrative Law Judge Approves Ultimate Fares Settlement (11/12/09)

• Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Fell 0.5% in September from August (11/12/09)

• U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Accepts Resignation of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Superintendent (11/09/09)
  
  
• Airline On-Time Performance Improves in September (11/09/09)
  

• Highway Investment Hits $20 Billion; Recovery Putting People to Work on Investments with Long-Term Benefit (11/03/09)

• U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Tours Manchester Airport Access Road Construction Site (10/30/09)
  
  
• August 2009 Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico Fell 24.9 Percent from August 2008 (10/29/09)

• DOT Proposes Fine for Enterprise Products Following Investigation into Kansas Pipeline Failure (10/28/09)
  
  
• BTS Releases 2nd-Quarter 2009 Air Fare Data (10/28/09)
  
  
• Obama Administration Issues Key Approval for Florida LNG Facility; Transportation Agreement Mandates Jobs for U.S. Mariners (10/27/09)

• Newly Formed Safety Council to Take Safety Commitment to Next Level (10/26/09)

• FMCSA Conducts First National Drug and Alcohol Strike Force Commercial Drivers Found in Violation Taken Off the Road
  

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Speeches

• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the American Chamber of Commerce Exec Board Meeting (11/06/09)

• DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION JOIN FORCES TO COMBAT DISTRACTED DRIVING (11/04/09)
  
  
• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the Politics and Eggs Breakfast at the New Hampshire Political Library (10/30/09)
  
  
• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the Detroit Economic Club (10/13/09)
  
  
• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the American Public Transportation Association (10/05/09)
  
  
• Distracted Driving Summit
  Washington, D.C. (10/01/09)
  
  
• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the National Energy Summit (09/23/09)
  
  
• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on the Livability Tour at the U.S.-Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Denver, CO (09/18/09)
  
  
• Remarks of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the National Association of Counties (NACO) (07/27/09)

• Remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood On the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act At the Center for National Policy (07/15/09)

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