Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

May18

Committee Approves the Water Resources Development Act of 2022

Today, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA), a bipartisan bill that will improve ports and harbors, inland waterway navigation, flood and storm protection, and other water reso...

May17

Committee Leaders Introduce Bipartisan Water Resources Development Act of 2022

Bill Text | Section by Section Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environ...

May11

Ranking Members Sam Graves and Rodney Davis Statement on the Administration’s So-Called Action Plan on Project Permitting

Joint statement from Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) on the Administration’s “action plan” on infrastructure project permitting anno...

May05

Biden Administration Continues War on American Minerals

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its recommendation that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not re-issue PolyMet’s Clean Water Act Section 404 permit for the NorthMet project in northeastern Minnesota. "The President and h...

Apr28

Graves & Rouzer Want Answers about Administration’s Proposed Stakeholder Roundtables on “Waters of the United States”

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member David Rouzer (R-NC) have asked the Biden Administration for more transparency about the formation, intent, an...

Apr21

Graves and Davis Statement on the Biden Administration’s Latest Policy Discouraging States from Using Their Infrastructure Funds to Build Roads

Joint statement of Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) on the Biden Administration’s new transportation guidance that reinforces their i...

Apr21

WSJ Editorial: Reimposed NEPA Regulations “Means Death by a Thousand Regulatory Cuts” for Infrastructure Projects

In case you missed it, a Wall Street Journal editorial, “How to Kill American Infrastructure on the Sly,” calls out the Biden Administration’s dubious claim that its recently announced reimposition of outdated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)...

Apr19

Graves Statement on the Biden Administration’s NEPA Rule and Slowdown of U.S. Infrastructure Projects

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) statement on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) final “Phase I” National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rollback rule: “This rule to reimpose outdated...

Apr18

Graves, Capito Lead Colleagues in Filing Amicus Brief on Clean Water Act Authority

Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO), Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led 45 additional s...