... measure by Rep. Gene Shelby, D-Hot Springs, requiring all motorcyclists to wear helmets failed before the House Transportation Committee. Associated Press Writer Andrew DeMillo contributed to this report.

... stations stalled Thursday when supporters mustered only six of the 10 votes needed to pass the measure out of the House Transportation Committee. "They need to know that the legislators, the elected officials, want to know if they're going to put ...

... Commission of its authority to put toll booths on existing interstates failed to get the measure out of the House Transportation Committee. They needed 10 votes and got six despite making impassioned pleas to give the people, through their elected ...

... and cargo into war zones and approve a six-month reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., proposed the short-term FAA measure to give him and Senate Commerce Committee ...

... budgets. Republican leaders were having other problems in the struggle to push their plan through Congress. House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., was demanding that the across-the-board cut not apply to highway programs ...

... develop a security system for our airports." Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota, the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, also faulted the president's plan. "The most basic responsibility of government is to protect its citizens ...

... also got personal calls from Webster. Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., then in the majority on the House Transportation Committee, said the visit left him incredulous that the former CIA and FBI director was using his stature to stump ...

... uniformed federal workers doing the screening, said Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota, ranking Democrat on the House Transportation Committee. The law calls for all screening operations, now run by private security companies, to be under federal ...

... a critical ally, pavement-loving Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., the artful and powerful chairman of the House Transportation Committee. Shuster is the reason the intersection of I-70 and of I-76 detours down the two-stoplight main street ...

... Their primary responsibility is to fly the airplane." Though Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Transportation Committee agreed to arm only a fraction of the pilots, rank-and-file lawmakers voted to expand the program to any ...