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Washington Notebook: Election shakes up T&I Committee
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
With a number of Democrats leaving Congress in 2015, the primary election results will have an immediate impact on the makeup of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Longtime West Virginia congressman Nick Rahall has lost his re-election bid, and when he leaves the chamber next year, the T&I Committee will lose its ranking member. According to reports, Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., will ascend to the ranking member position. Democrat Tim Bishop of New...
Washington Notebook: Customs hopes to fill Christmas stocking
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the General Services Administration yesterday announced the open period for accepting donation proposals to help improve border processing, as authorized in Section 559 of last year's appropriation act. Congress gave CBP and GSA permission to accept donations of property, money or services from the private sector or local governments for the construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of new or existing ports of entry. &n...
Washington Notebook: DHS chief talks with Canadian counterparts
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson concluded Tuesday a two-day trip to Ottawa, where he met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of his cabinet to discuss anti-terrorism cooperation and ongoing implementation of the Beyond the Border initiative. Beyond the Border is a three-year-old bilateral effort led by Harper and President Obama to improve North American economic growth, and streamline border processes to facilitate trade and harmonize regulations. ...
Washington Notebook: NTSB kicks out UPS, union from crash investigation
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
The National Transportation Safety Board has revoked the status of UPS and the Independent Pilots Association as "interested parties" able to provide technical assistance for its investigation of a UPS Airbus A300 freighter that crashed in Birmingham, Ala., last August. Two flight crew members were killed, and the plane was destroyed upon impact less than a mile short of the runway. The independent agency said it took the action after the IPA and UPS violated the te...
Washington Notebook: USTR Froman stumps for trade deals in four states
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman earlier this month made the rounds of key exporting states to highlight the importance of exports to small businesses and the regional economy. The trip coincided with a "Made in Rural America" regional forum dedicated to promoting rural exports, which was held at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. In February, the White House's Rural Council launched a "Made in Rural America" export initiative to pull together federal resources so busi...
Washington Notebook: WTO trade facilitation effort can be revived, analysts say
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Trade advocates say there still is a window of opportunity to implement the agreement on trade facilitation reached by ministers at a World Trade Organization meeting in Bali, Indonesia, last December. India is receiving the largest amount of blame for the failure to reach a final agreement on an implementation framework by July 31. India and several other WTO members sought to postpone implementation until negotiations on other aspects of the Bali accords are complete. India wa...
Washington Notebook: U.S. ports receive $100 million in security funding
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced $100 million in grant allocations for port security , part of $1.6 billion in awards to states and localities for a range of programs tied to homeland security preparedness. Port security grants are used to help port authorities, private terminals and local law enforcement protect infrastructure from terrorism, enhance maritime domain awareness, improve risk management, and plan recovery in the event of a disaster. &...
Washington Notebook: House passes appropriations bill for Army Corps
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
The U.S. House of Representatives last week easily passed an Energy and Water Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015 that funds agencies such as the Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for maintaining and upgrading navigable channels for inland waterways and harbors. Included in the bill is an amendment to increase spending from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund by $57.6 million to meet the target set in the recently enacted Water Resources Reform and Development Act. &nbs...
Washington Notebook: Sen. Rockefeller presses for oil-by-rail safety regs
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
John D. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, on Monday urged President Obama to speed up a rulemaking aimed at improving safety for transportation of crude oil by rail. The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing proposed rules by the Department of Transportation that would set stricter design standards for tank cars used to carry crude oil, in addition to requiring other precautions. Older DOT-approved tank cars tend to ruptur...
Washington Notebook: CBP document imaging pilot enters third phase
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
U.S. Customs and Border Protection later this month will begin the third phase of a trial program to test use of its document-imaging system for electronically uploading shipping documents required along with the customs entry. The pilot program covers shipments that must be released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. The paper system is designed to speed up response time by allowing traders to scan and email supporting documents for ...
Washington Notebook: U.S. agencies to test integrated trusted shipper program
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has plans to test a holistic trusted trader program that combines security and trade compliance similar to the World Customs Organization's Authorized Economic Operator model, the agency announced in the Federal Register last week. The pilot program represents another step toward integrated government cargo clearance at the border that relies on a common approach toward risk management instead of various agencies using separate criteria ...
Washington Notebook: Industry tries to drive stake through scan-all law
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last month formally notified Congress that his department will exercise its right to extend for another two years the deadline to scan all inbound ocean containers for nuclear weapons or other terror-related contraband at foreign ports, and business groups are now rising up to kill the mandate altogether. The moves come as some lawmakers seek to revive a law that was left for dead because most House and Senate members, realizing their vote...
Washington Notebook: ATA endorses list of highway funding options
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The American Trucking Associations last week offered a number of revenue alternatives it supports to address the nation's funding crunch for surface transportation infrastructure. The nation's leading trucking advocacy organization favors raising the motor fuels tax and indexing it to inflation to plug the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, which is expected to run out of money sometime in August. The HTF has been depleted in recent years because obligations to reimburse state...
Washington Notebook: Inchcape loses protest of U.S. Navy award to competitor
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday denied a protest by Inchcape Shipping Services of a U.S. Navy contract awarded to MLS-Multinational Logistics Services Ltd. for maritime support services. Inchape had argued that the award was improper because MLS made a key personnel change following the close of discussions and that the award violates the prohibition against contracting with inverted domestic companies. Federal acquisition rules prohibit the award of co...
Washington Notebook: Oberstar's legacy shines
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Condolences and remembrances continued to pour in Monday for former House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James Oberstar, who died unexpectedly over the weekend. The Minnesota congressman carved out a four-decade career in the House of Representatives as an expert on transportation policy, first as an aide and then as a lawmaker. He was the ranking member on the T&I Committee for many years because the Democrats were in the minority, but became chairman in 2007 and held that p...
Washington Notebook: EPA honors 10 SmartWay Affiliate members
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week honored 10 affiliate members in its SmartWay Transport program with a Challenge Award for supporting policies and practices that reduce truck emissions and improve freight efficiency. SmartWay, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a voluntary industry-government program through which long-haul motor carriers, port shuttle truckers and now, barge companies, measure their emissions output and fuel consumption against indu...
Washington Notebook: Commerce Department expands export assistance resources
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Pritzker U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on Thursday announced that the Department of Commerce will expand its overseas resources to help U.S. businesses navigate additional global markets and sell their goods and services to customers all over the world. The department's International Trade Administration will add a total of 68 new positions and open offices in five new countries, including its first in Burma. The expansion is largely focused on fast-growing markets in Asia and s...
Washington Notebook: Foxx bus tour aims for infrastructure investment support
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Foxx U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx embarked Monday on a weeklong "Invest in America, Commit to the Future" bus tour that will take him to eight states, where he will try to drum up support for funding a large surface transportation bill and restoring solvency to the Highway Trust Fund before it runs out of money later this summer. The current two-year transportation authorization expires at the end of September, but the Highway Trust Fund is paying out more in obli...
Washington Notebook: U.S. Customs to add 2,000 officers, accept more local donations
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday it has authority under its fiscal year 2014 appropriation to hire an additional 2,000 officers to process cargo and travelers at land, air and sea ports of entry. The additional staff will help reduce wait times. CBP can hire 700 officers in the current fiscal year that runs through Sept. 30 and another 1,300 in fiscal year 2015, Deputy Commissioner Thomas Winkowski said in March at CBP's Trade Symposium in Washington. ...
Washington Notebook: Corporate giants team up to urge transport investments
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Four Fortune 100 companies and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway have formed the Alliance for American Competitiveness to push Washington to make strategic investments in infrastructure that support economic growth and job creation by reducing logistics costs relative to other countries. The organization's start coincides with consideration in Congress this year of legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs managed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Als...
Washington Notebook: Signs point to WRDA vote in May
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Congressional negotiators are expected to finalize joint legislation to reauthorize the Water Resources Development Act by late April and take it to the House and Senate for a final vote in May, maritime industry officials say. The House passed its version of the WRDA bill last fall by an overwhelming margin and the Senate approved a bill last spring. Political observers in Washington expected differences between the bills to be quickly sorted out and a WRDA bill t...
Washington Notebook: Ukraine unrest impacts trade
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The diplomatic crisis ensuing from Russia's military intervention in the Ukrainian region of Crimea could harm trade with Ukraine. The biggest potential impact so far is on Ukrainian grain exports, which could benefit U.S. farmers. Sanctions imposed by the European Union, the United States, Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein and Canada are primarily targeted at about 20 individuals in the former Ukrainian government and others involved in the unrest. The measures against former ...
Washington Notebook: Obama budget offers pluses, minuses for goods movement
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
President Barack Obama on Tuesday released a $3.9 trillion budget for fiscal year 2015, with a 2.6-percent budget increase for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a $10 billion freight program within a $302 billion plan for surface transportation programs over four years, and a reduction in funding to dredge harbors — and little chance that it will become law as a whole. Instead, the administration will try to get certain pet priorities funded at the desired level. The White Hou...
Washington Notebook: Wyden becomes Senate Finance chairman
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., last week took the reins of the influential Senate Finance Committee. He replaces Max Baucus who didn't plan to run for reelection this fall and was recently confirmed by the Senate to be ambassador to China. Wyden gave up his chairmanship of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to head Finance. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana was approved as chairman of Energy and Natural Resources. Landrieu in turn gave up her sp...
Washington Notebook: FMCSA shelves two truck drivers for safety hazard
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared two truck drivers imminent hazards to public safety and ordered them to not operate any commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce. The moves continue an enhanced enforcement posture by the agency for the past two years to put dangerous motor carriers and drivers out of business, but critics say the penalties still come too late and should be issued sooner based on available information before acciden...
Washington Notebook: Governors urge action to rescue Highway Trust Fund
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Seventeen Democratic and Republican governors last week urged Congress to find a long-term solution for the revenue shortage that plagues the Highway Trust Fund, which is expected to run out of money to pay for highway construction by the end of the summer. Congress has propped up the HTF, which is the repository for user fees collected at the fuel pump and excise taxes on commercial truckers, with more than $50 billion in transfers from the general fund during the past several ...
Washington Notebook: Oil industry meets DOT chief about tank car safety
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The petroleum and railroad industries met last week in Washington to discuss how to improve safety related to crude oil transport by train with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The American Petroleum Institute said strong railcars that do not easily leak in a derailment are important, but the first priority is finding ways to prevent accidents. "API has led the way in improving the safety of rail tank cars by building since 2011 next generation tank cars that exceed...
Washington Notebook: Truck pilot program set to begin at Peace Bridge
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will launch this month a one-year cargo pre-inspection pilot test in Fort Erie, Ontario, for trucks crossing the Peace Bridge to Buffalo, N.Y. The exercise will test the ability of the pre-inspection process to reduce wait times and border congestion, a key goal of the Beyond the Border Initiative between Canada and the United States. The test follows a five month "proof of concept" demonstration at the Surrey, British Columbia, cr...
Washington Notebook: Truckers request split rest period study
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
As part of a broader effort to modify hours-of-service rules for commercial truck drivers, the American Trucking Associations this month joined with the Minnesota Trucking Association to petition the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a pilot study that would identify the potential safety benefits of giving truckers with sleeper berths more flexibility in how they take rest breaks. "The trucking industry wants FMCSA to take its positive, laboratory-based findings on...
Washington Notebook: Johnson confirmed as DHS Secretary
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Senate Confirms Johnson to lead DHS. By a vote of 78 to 16, the U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm Jeh Johnson as secretary of homeland security. President Obama nominated Johnson two months ago. He will be responsible for border security, disaster preparation and response, immigration control, cyber security, infrastructure protection, and aviation security. Rand Beers has been serving as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security since mid-Augu...
Washington Notebook: Pacific Rim trade talks bog down
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Ministers meeting in Singapore adjourned without finalizing a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, but said they had made significant progress and would meet again next month. Negotiators had long expressed hope of concluding a Pacific trade deal by the end of the year. The TPP talks are aimed at opening markets and reducing duties among the participating countries, which include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Pe...
Washington Notebook: U.S. Chamber urges Congress to settle on final WRDA bill
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday urged House and Senate negotiators to resolve the differences between the Senate and House-passed versions of the Water Resources Development Act and favorably report a joint bill as soon as possible. In a letter to conference committee members, the largest U.S. business federation said the two bills, S. 601 and H.R. 3080, contain many common elements that have consensus agreement. The Chamber said said it favors the Senate's a...
Washington Notebook: Railroads propose tank car changes for flammable materials
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
In the wake of last summer's highly publicized accident in which a train hauling crude oil crashed into the center of a Canadian town and killed 45 people, the freight rail industry is pressing the federal government to raise the standards for tank cars used to transport flammable liquids. In comments filed earlier this month with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) , part of the Department of Transportation, the American Association of Railroads a...
Washington Notebook: House freight study – where's the beef?
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee panel specially created early this year to come up with recommendations for improving the nation's freight transportation system released its final report on Oct. 29. The panel's work is supposed to help Chairman Bill Shuster and his colleagues develop a surface transportation reauthorization bill next year that includes support for freight infrastructure, which has historically been a neglected component of U.S. transportation...
Washington Notebook: Industry questions Republican Party direction
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Business leaders question direction of Republican Party. The extreme conservative faction of the Republican Party — better known as the Tea Party — was largely responsible for the recent government shutdown and brinksmanship over the nation's debt limit. A majority of the public has laid blame for the shutdown at the feet of the Republican Party, even though a minority of House Republicans forced its will on the leadership and stymied any compromise. Now business groups, traditionally ...
Washington Notebook: CBP works on ACE, modifies simplified-entry pilot
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
CBP deploys latest ACE functionality. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it successfully deployed on Saturday its first batch of functionality developed using the Agile software development methodology for the Automated Commercial Environment. The agency was forced to postpone the rollout for a month because of the temporary government shutdown. ACE is Customs' new enterprise system for processing imports and exports, internal and external communications on trade tran...
Washington Notebook: Bill ending shutdown has money for Olmstead lock project
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Hidden in last week's law to reopen government at existing funding levels and raise the nation's debt is a provision raising the cap on allowable spending for the Olmstead lock and dam project on the Ohio River in Illinois to $2.9 billion from the current $1.56 billion. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working for 25 years to install a replacement set of locks near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The measure does not appropriate fun...
Washington Notebook: Shutdown halts DOE diesel index
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
DOE diesel fuel data suspended. One of the less obvious results of the partial U.S. government shutdown is that agencies are not releasing monthly data about the economy, such as the Labor Department's job growth report. The data is important for economists and businesses to understand where the economy is going during a sputtering recovery. And, now, with a month's hole in the data, it will be difficult to make month-to-month and annual comparisons for the job market, housing and othe...
Washington Notebook: Economists predict more slow growth as government shuts down
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
U.S. economy to grow about 2.5 percent next year, experts say. The U.S. economy will continue to muddle along at nearly the same slow pace of the past couple years in 2014, according to economists at last week's FTR Associates conference in Indianapolis. William Strauss, senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said a survey of blue-chip economists predicts the economy will register 2.1-percent growth this year, with output edging up to 2.8 perc...
Washington Notebook: Space still available for CBP Trade Symposium
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The annual Trade Symposium hosted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington is one month away and the agency is reminding trade practitioners interested in hearing first hand from top leadership about the agency's progress modernizing its commercial operations that there will not be a second West Coast version of the event this year. Key speakers include U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman; World Customs Organization Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica; and Rep...
Washington Notebook: VP Biden makes infrastructure pitch at SE ports
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
During a visit to the Port of Savannah on Monday, Vice President Joseph Biden made an impassioned appeal for investment in transportation infrastructure, saying efficient highways, railroads, ports, and inland waterways provide such an obvious economic benefit that they should rise above partisan politics when Congress makes funding decisions. "Where do people go to build their plants? They go to build their plants, with good reason, where they can get the greatest return o...
Washington Notebook: ITC approves antidumping probe of alloy imports
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The six members of the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously voted to instruct the Department of Commerce to continue its antidumping investigation of ferrosilicon from Russia and Venezuela, saying there is reasonable evidence so far that the products are being sold in the United States at less than fair value. Ferrosilicon is an alloy of silicon and iron, used as an additive in steelmaking and the production of iron castings. The Commerce Department's pre...
Washington Notebook: Port security grants and export enforcement
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
DHS awards $93 million for port security. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced the allocation of $93.2 million in annual port security grants to protect against, mitigate and respond to terrorist attacks. The port grants represent a small portion of $1.5 billion in preparedness grants awarded to states, cities, and towns by DHS's Federal Emergency Management Agency. Port authorities, facility operators and state and local government agencies...
Washington Notebook: NCBFAA seeks to loosen 'confidentiality' standard
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America said it has asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection to revoke or modify a number of long-standing rules interpretations regarding safeguards for protection of confidential customer information. The group, which represents about 850 trade intermediaries, says the rules are too strict and hinder the development of business relationships. A number of CBP rulings the last decade have interpre...
Washington Notebook: Import and export enforcement cases
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Germany helps U.S. Customs stop illegal pharma shipment. U.S. and German customs authorities recently teamed up to stop a large shipment of smuggled prescription drugs from entering the United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Acting on a tip from the German Customs Investigation Bureau, Zollkriminalamt, CBP officers at San Francisco International Airport's mail facility intercepted numerous parcels with 20,000 Zolpidem pills that originated in India and tr...
Washington Notebook: Obama nominates drug czar to head CBP
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
President Obama on Friday nominated Gil Kerlikowske, director of Office of National Drug Control Policy in the White House, to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. The news comes less than a month after the American Association of Exporters and Importers wrote a letter urging the president to quickly name someone to helm the agency, which plays a key role in the lives of companies engaged in international business through enforcement of trade and immigration re...
Washington Notebook: ACE document imaging pilot enters phase 2
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The document imaging pilot program for shippers and customs brokers that file entry summaries through the Automated Commercial Environment has entered a second phase with expanded eligibility for participants and an increased number of forms that can be transmitted to other U.S. government agencies. In a July 23 Federal Register notice and other information posted online, Customs and Border Protection said the Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmosph...
Washington Notebook: DHS opening brings attention to former Customs chief Kelly
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
President Obama last week said he would consider the recommendation of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to name Ray Kelly as the next secretary of homeland security if the New York City Police Commissioner was interested in the job. Kelly is highly regarded as a no-nonsense cop with excellent organizational skills, but some in the import-export sector remember his tenure as U.S. Customs commissioner as more focused on catching criminals and contraband than minimizing procedures that delayed cro...
Washington Notebook: FAA tightens qualifications for co-pilots
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday published a new rule designed to increase airline safety by requiring greater qualification standards for co-pilots. The final rule mandates that first officers for U.S. airlines hold a commercial pilot certificate requiring them to log 1,500 hours of flying time before becoming a co-pilot. Previously, they needed only 250 hours of flight time in advance. The rule also requires co-pilots to have an aircraft-type rating, ...
Washington Notebook: CBP to launch next-gen C-TPAT portal... and more
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
C-TPAT Portal 2.0 almost ready for prime time. The next version of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism's online portal will be launched in the next 60 to 90 days, U.S. Customs said in a communique to the trade community. The enhanced version of the C-TPAT Portal was originally introduced at the C-TPAT Supply Chain Security Conference in January. The C-TPAT portal allows members to submit their application, update their security profile, view their valid...
Washington Notebook: ITA reorganizes to help U.S. exporters
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The International Trade Administration, which works to strengthen the competitiveness of U.S. industry around the world and is the lead agency driving President Obama's National Export Initiative, is moving forward with consolidation after receiving approval, from congressional appropriators in early May, Francisco Sánchez, the under secretary of Commerce for international trade, recently told reporters. Under the plan, the ITA will eliminate one of its four business units to be...
Washington Notebook: U.S.-EU trade talks to start next month
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
U.S-EU free trade negotiations. The United States and European Union announced during the G-8 Summit in Ireland that they would begin formal trade negotiations the week of July 8 in Washington. U.S. and European Commission officials have been making preliminary plans for talks since the beginning of the year and the announcement follows final approval in recent days from the European Parliament. Completion of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is expe...
Washington Notebook: Senate committee approves Commerce, DOT appointees
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Monday unanimously approved the nominations of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to be secretary of transportation and Penny Pritzker to be secretary of commerce. Meanwhile, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., was announced as the new chairman of the Commerce subcommittee on surface transportation and merchant marine infrastructure, safety and security, previously held by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died June 3. Sen. Richard ...
Washington Notebook: DOT selects experts for Freight Advisory Committee
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday named 47 professionals from industry, academia, labor, safety advocacy and government to its inaugural Freight Advisory Committee, which will provide advice and recommendations for improving the national freight transportation system. Its first order of business will be to help the department create a national freight transportation strategy, as required by last year's MAP-21 surface transportation law. The DOT said it sought to ...
Washington Notebook: Virginia transport politics, Commerce's export awards
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Va. Gov. McDonnell signs landmark transportation bill. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell last week signed the breakthrough transportation funding bill passed by the General Assembly in March. The "Virginia's Road to the Future" bill, the first comprehensive transportation funding plan in 27 years, provides an additional $3.5 billion in funding by 2018 for new road and bridge construction, mass transit, rail and other needs, along with several reforms to improve project development. &...
Washington Notebook: British leader discusses trade deal with Obama
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Preparations for upcoming negotiations between the United States and European Union on a transatlantic free trade and investment agreement were on the agenda Monday when U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron visited the White House. The United States and European Union enjoy the world's largest economic relationship, accounting for a third of total goods and services trade, and half of world output. Trade supports 13 million jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. Each day an ...
Washington Notebook: Commerce Department trade update
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
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The U.S. president's brief remarks seemed aimed at Democrats, who are demanding a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq, beginning in a matter of months. Bush has steadfastly resisted any timetable, and his comments on Monday offered the first hint of how he might respond.
Addressing reporters in the Oval Office, Bush shed little light on the substance of his hour-and-15-minute session with members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state, and Lee Hamilton, the former congressman. The president said that they had "a good discussion," and that he was "looking forward to interesting ideas."
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Democrats, for their part, continued their offensive, saying the American people had given them a mandate.
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Instead of using vanilla bean, I buy vanilla bean paste. Never tried it? It works well, and is less expensive, and you can see the pretty vanilla bean seeds. I measured 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste. The prep takes just a few minutes, and the recipe takes less than five minutes!
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Coeur a la Creme with Rasberry Chambord Coulis Sauce for my Sweetheart (with some help from Ina Garten)-- two recipes in one!
Instead of using vanilla bean, I buy vanilla bean paste. Never tried it? It works well, and is less expensive, and you can see the pretty vanilla bean seeds. I measured 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste. The prep takes just a few minutes, and the recipe takes less than five minutes!
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- daniella said...
Well, they do always say that the fastest way to the core of a man's heart is through good food...just the way you make it! I'm pretty sure my husband falls in love with me more and more each time I make/bake something delicious.
Love all your recipes. Very cute picture of you and hubby.
- February 15, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- Cristie said...
What a sweet Valentine to your Sweetie! Love your recipe.
- February 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- Debinhawaii said...
This was one of my favorite Ina recipes from my Barefoot Blogger days--it's so delicious. Your raspberry chambord sauce looks wonderful.
- February 16, 2010 at 12:46 AM
That looks absolutely amazing ... and the pictures are so cute :)
hope you had a lovely Valentine :)
- February 16, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- Kim said...
I've always wanted to try this Ina recipe. It came out beautiful. So glad you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day.
- February 16, 2010 at 6:06 AM
- George Gaston said...
Debby, you are one creative lady. Not only does this look delicious, it was made especially for the one you love.
Great photos....
- February 16, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- TKW said...
Looks like we both were on the booze train this weekend! :) This is lush!
- February 16, 2010 at 7:13 AM
- bella said...
Chambord liquor is my all time favorite after dinner drink (and just plain to drink alone too!) This has to be a wonderful dessert because 1) it originated from Ina and 2) YOU made it.....gotta try! Funny: You used Chambord and I used Limoncello liquors! Hope you had a happy sweetie day! Roz
- February 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Claire (Culinarygoddess.com) said...
Looks great! Happy Valentines Day!
- February 16, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- Karen said...
Wow, what a treat! It looks so fancy - perfect for Valentine's Day!
- February 16, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- My Carolina Kitchen said...
I've made Ina's Coeur a couple of times and have the mold too. It always turns out great.
Congratulations to you and your Valentine sweetie. Great picture of the two of you.
- February 16, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
How can you go wrong with cream cheese, raspberries and Chambord? I'm falling in love just looking at the photos!
- February 16, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Lisa said...
Looks beautiful. I've always wanted to try this recipe. I think my husband would love it.
- February 16, 2010 at 1:58 PM
- Ingrid said...
I love two for one deals! Did you know?
Thanks for sharing the recipes. I had no clue coeur a la creme was sooo easy! I'll also be trying your coulis sauce. I'm thinking it would work with blackberries which I seem to have grown a "thing" for.
Why does he shriek over that photo? I think you guys look great.
- February 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM
- Monica H said...
Ooh this looks luscious and right up my alley. I lurve cream cheese and now I must get my hands on one of those molds! I wonder if I could substitute something else. hmmm?
Happy Valentine's to you both. That's a great picture of you two!
- February 17, 2010 at 12:33 AM
- Stacey Snacks said...
I love that cupid photo of you and Craig, it's so sweet.
and that bottle of Chambord....yum!
- February 17, 2010 at 5:29 PM
- Susan said...
Wow! What an impressive, but apparently easy, dessert! I will have to give this a try. :) I love Ina.
- February 17, 2010 at 8:11 PM
- Proud Italian Cook said...
Deb, You 2 lovebirds look so cute! I never made this or even tasted this. I also would be curious to see how to make it with ricotta maybe a little lighter calories wise? Either way, it looks wonderful! Great step by step,I could almost taste it all.
- February 18, 2010 at 6:23 AM
- WizzyTheStick said...
This looks faboulous. I love the mold. Ohh the possiblilies...I'm wondering if it would work with a low fat yoghurt cheese so that I can have this for beakfast
- February 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM
- Cathy said...
What a lovely dessert, Debby. We can always count on Ina, can't we? I think I have enough raspberries in the freezer for some of your luscious sauce. Beautiful post.
- February 19, 2010 at 6:47 AM
- Velva said...
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...
- February 19, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Marguerite said...
Fabulous recipe and photo of you two!
- February 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- Cathy W said...
How romantic! :) The title of your dessert alone made me swoon. This really looks fabulous...and you can't go wrong with Chambord.
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Some white people are living in denial, and their moral self-righteousness denies the reality of what is going on all over the world. Instead of facing the reality that blacks are suffering because of instutionalize racism, they turn their heads and say to themselves it's no so. They say it's all black people fault to feel better about themselves. They also say "black people need to work hard like the rest of us if they want to get ahead. Whites discriminate when black apply for jobs, I have witnessed this myself. In the days of slavery there were just as many white Christians as it is today who thought it was ok to have slaves. Not only did they have them they were very brutal and cruel to them. Do any of you so call white Christians think those thousands of white people back then were right and were do you think they will spend eternity for their evilness? Some "say I didn't have anything to do with slavery", but fail to realize they are reaping the benefits from slavery to this day. Some of you are suffering from a superiority complex and deny it because, you are asinine. They (some white people) have these child-like delusions of entitlement to see everyone as the mistake except themselves. When it comes to the admitting their sins they resort to lies and spew out kind nonsense when the facts dismantles their arguments. Their arguments aren't built on factual research, but instead its reflected by ignorance, hate and arrogance. Claiming that another race is inferior to their own is good for their self esteem and they need these pointless forms rhetoric to balance their inner conflicting issues with GUILT. I have been in this world 70 years and witness a lot of evil done to whites, blacks and all groups of people. God knows it's the truth, when I say no other group of people except the native Americans have been treated as cruel and brutal as blacks. It's beyond me how anyone who know anything about God, can think that God will allow those who do these evil to go unpunished. By no means am I saying black people are angels, there's good and bad in every ethnic group and those who sin will have to answer to God no matter who you are and what color you are. As a whole whites have committed more crimes against blacks it would take blacks 400 years to catch up. When I think of how black people have been treated and how they are treated to this day, it brings to mind this passage from the bible. Ps. Hear what the word of God is saying: Sin speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; they reject God and do not have reverence for him. Because they think so highly of themselves, they think that God will not discover their sin and condemn it. Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good. They make evil plans as they lie in bed; nothing they do is good, and they never reject anything evil. The wicked plot against good people and glare at them with hate. But the Lord laughs at wicked people, because he knows they will soon be destroyed. The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to kill the poor and needy, to slaughter those who do what is right; but they will be killed by their own swords, and their bows will be smashed. If you believe it or not, we will all have to stand before God in judgment. I'm so glad God is the final judge of who's right and whose wrong and I wouldn't want to be the socks in the shoes of those who are wrong and think they are right.
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Last time I checked, Japanese Americans were still using their Japanese names. So much for that excuse. And Africans that migrate here don't change their names either, and they are doing exceptionally well. So you just don't like "black-sounding" names. Too bad for you.
When white cops kill blacks, they are never prosecuted for their crimes. This is not the case for black on black crime of course. The perpetrators WILL face justice if caught. And this is precisely the point that BLM makes. That cops should be tried and convicted for their crimes against black people. But it seems that in America today, even that is too much to demand.
JMR- You are either ignorant or insane both I'd rather not be. Your foolishness is the real reason why this Nation will never live in harmony. Your statements are fact-less and field with blame and same with no interest in the entire truth. You spew this ridiculous sentiment based on your opinion with some minuscule insertion of a few facts to bolster your BS. Bottom line is, until the old guard of white America, with their disingenuous beliefs and fear die off nothing will ever change. The system you created has now come back to roost. The country was founded on Death, crimes against humanity, rape, theft and pillaging. Our ancestry stole people from their homes, brought them to another country naked, and afraid. Beat them into submission, raped their women, killed their men for attempting to flee this brutality and forced them into 400 years of free labor. Then once they built this Nation with with the blood, sweat and tears, they were so called freed at some point. Oh but no you didn't stop there and wiped the slate clean, you then created the convict leasing System where you were able to say a black person committed a crime in order to keep slave labor. That was abolished during Reconstruction 1855-1877. Oh but no that wasn't enough, Jim Crow 1890-1914 were there were multiple riots and more killings of blacks who were trying to gain their own wealth and systems to provide for themselves and your people wouldn't have it. 1895 New Orleans, Wilmington insurrection 1898 aka Wilmington massacre of 1898, The event marks an era of more severe racial segregation and effective disenfranchisement of African-Americans throughout the South, a shift already underway since passage by Mississippi of a new constitution in 1890 raising barriers to voter registration. Laura Edwards wrote in Democracy Betrayed (2000), "What happened in Wilmington became an affirmation of white supremacy not just in that one city, but in the South and in the nation as a whole. Atlanta Ga race riot 1906 through 109 multiple riots conducted by white people. 1917 4 cites held race riots that year. 1920 1944- 12 race riots in ,multiple cities including the Tulsa 1921 Massacre-killing some 300 people, mostly blacks. The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, then the wealthiest black community in the nation. More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and more than 6,000 black residents were arrested and detained, some for as many as eight days.[2] The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics was 39.


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The Evolving Standards of Admissibility of Scientific Evidence
By Joseph T. Walsh
The emergence of genetic science poses significant challenges at both the substantive and procedural levels of litigation.
The use of scientific proof in a forensic setting has proven problematic for both judges and attorneys because most of them are not technically trained. Much of the difficulty encountered by courts when facing scientific evidence lies not in a lack of understanding the underlying science but in the task of choosing between competing scientific explanations tendered by individuals who seek to wear the mantle of experts.
Judicial discomfort in handling scientific evidence has increased in recent years with the emergence of scientific testimony offered by experts whose availability and malleability have earned them the sobriquet of "hired guns." Just as the controversy over roving "experts" was at its height, the role of judges in determining the admissibility of scientific and technical evidence was made more difficult by the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical, Inc., which abolished the seventy-year-old test for evaluating scientific evidence first pronounced in Frye v. United States. Under Frye's simplistic teaching, trial courts, when faced with a challenge to the admissibility of expert testimony, determined whether the expert's methods were generally accepted in the relevant scientific community. If so, the evidence was admitted with any deficiencies attributable to either the frailty of the underlying science or the expert's qualifications, both matters of weight for the jury.
The underlying evidentiary issue in Daubert was the scientific validity of the methodology of studies offered by the plaintiffs to prove that a drug used by pregnant mothers to control nausea could cause birth defects. In considering that matter, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Frye did not survive the enactment of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, and some other approach was necessary. A majority of the Court then ruled that when confronted with novel or scientific evidence, the trial judge must assume the role of "gatekeeper" to ensure that the "expert's testimony both rests on a reliable foundation and is relevant to the task at hand." In discharging the reliability task, the trial judge may use a variety of sources, including the testimony of experts. However, ultimately it is the trial judge's decision whether the evidence passes the test of reliability.
Although the language of the majority opinion in Daubert appears to confer broad discretion on trial judges, it emphasizes the need to determine the reliability of scientific knowledge through its origin in the scientific method. To that end, the Supreme Court directed trial judges to consider at least four factors when determining admissibility: (1) whether the theory or technique can be tested, (2) whether the proffered work has been subjected to peer review, (3) whether the rate of error is acceptable, and (4) whether the method at issue enjoys widespread acceptance.
Whither Daubert? The Supreme Court's ruling in Daubert is binding only on federal courts. One clear byproduct of Daubert is that trial judges, in discharging their gatekeeper role, are conducting more in limine hearings to assess the genuineness of scientific claims despite the risk that admissibility may turn on a highly subjective determination by a trial judge who may not be technically competent to choose between competing scientific theories.
Daubert's reception at the state court level has been mixed. As precedent, Daubert is not binding on state courts, but the Frye rule that it replaced was also a federal pronouncement that, over time, found adoption in most state courts as the general standard for admissibility of scientific evidence. More-over, Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence has been adopted in thirty-eight states, and since Daubert relies in part on an expansive view of Rule 702, eventually most state courts will be required to reexamine their standards for admissibility of scientific evidence.
As the Daubert versus Frye debate continues at the state level, it will be the responsibility of the appellate courts, in those jurisdictions that have not resolved the issue, to provide a definitive standard of admissibility.
The Role of Appellate Courts in the Admissibility Debate. The rulings in both Daubert and Frye were pronouncements of appellate courts intended for application at the trial level.
Generally, trial courts operate as the primary force for resolving disputes and adjudicating criminal charges and appellate courts perform two distinct institutional functions: correction of error and definition of law.
While trial judges will continue to function as gatekeepers, either under Daubert's express designation or under traditional standards, appellate judges, particularly at the state level, will also be required to fashion new standards of admissibility or opt to retain existing norms. In addition to the question of whether Frye should be abandoned as the cornerstone of admissibility of scientific evidence, a number of questions remain unanswered under Daubert. What is the relationship of Rule 703, which deals with the acceptability of the expert's sources, to the reliability of the expert's methods when examined under Rule 702? To what extent will the balancing test under Rule 403, measuring the probative value of evidence against its potential for prejudice, permit the trial judge to trump the process even where scientific evidence meets the threshold for admissibility under Daubert? These and other questions will require further refinement at the appellate level of many state courts in the years ahead.
The appellate process is essentially reactive in the sense that it responds to the record as constituted in the trial courts and to the issues as framed by the litigants. Thus, the primary focus will continue to be at the trial level, where offers of scientific evidence will confront the trial judge who is vested with the initial responsibility for acceptance or rejection of evidence. It is hoped that as definitional rules slowly emerge from the appellate level, trial judges will have available the standards necessary to address the proofs that continue to evolve from the world of science.
Is an Abuse of Discretion Standard Controlling? Daubert's designation of trial judges as gatekeepers implicitly confers a large measure of discretion with respect to admissibility rulings. But as the Daubert debate continues and its proponents seek to expand its application to state courts, the initial rulings of trial judges on the standard of admissibility of scientific evidence, as opposed to the application of the standard to a specific proffer of evidence, will be subject to de novo review on appeal.
Even in the federal system, where Daubert's general application is not open to question, appellate courts are applying a more rigorous standard than abuse of discretion as trial judges experiment with their newly conferred gatekeeper authority. At least one circuit court concerned about "the enormous power [of a trial court] to foreclose submission of a party's case to a jury on the basis of a threshold determination of nonreliability of opinion evidence," has opted to take a "hard look" at the trial court's exercise of discretion. The hard look approach by appellate courts may be tacit recognition that a trial judge with limited experience in scientific matters, struggling to resolve scientific disputes at the threshold of admissibility, may need the guidance of broad appellate review.
Conclusion. As genetic study and other areas of scientific inquiry advance, the judicial system will be challenged to accommodate this new knowledge while not abandoning the safeguards of relevancy and reliability. Both trial judges, as gatekeepers of admissibility, and appellate judges, as definers of the standards of proof, will be required to acquire new learning in fields unfamiliar to them. Unless these challenges are met, the judicial system may find itself unable to cope with the demands of modern litigation and the latest forensic techniques.
Joseph T. Walsh is a justice on the Delaware Supreme Court and previously served on the superior court and the court of chancery.
This article is an abridged and edited version of one that originally appeared on page 33 in The Judges' Journal, Summer 1997 issue (36:3).