Click to play video U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) urged U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to protect contract towers, like those that serve airports in Decatur and Bloomington-Normal, during an Aviation Subcommittee hearing yesterday. This was Secretary Chao’s first appearance before the committee since being confirmed. “Contract towers handle roughly 28 percent of air traffic control operations in the U.S., but the Contract Tower Program only accounts for only 14 percen...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) is seeking input from constituents on their experience with the airline industry to highlight customer service issues at an upcoming Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing. Representatives of major airlines will appear before the committee. Constituents who would like to share their stories can visit rodneydavis.house.gov or click this link: https://rodneydavis.house.gov/forms/form/?ID=3207. The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing titl...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, in an op-ed published in The Hill, called on the airline industry to improve customer service. Davis has urged the airline industry to make commonsense reforms to better customer service and was successful in including his bill, Families Flying Together Act, in the most recent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Airlines must improve customer service or face government action BY RE...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today continued his tour of historic Route 66 through Central Illinois with U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) and State Rep. Rep. Tim Butler (R-Springfield). The tour is to highlight the economic significance of the most famous road in America and his bill commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Route 66. The lawmakers were joined by local mayors and other community leaders along the way. Yesterday, Da...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Illinois State Rep. Avery Bourne (R-Raymond) made stops at businesses and other historical Route 66 locations in Edwardsville, Livingston, Litchfield, Carlinville, and Girard to highlight the economic and historical significance of Route 66. The two lawmakers met with local mayors, business owners, and community leaders at each stop. Davis, along with U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, introduced legislati...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), along with the Illinois congressional delegation, sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) expressing concern over the impact FEMA’s Public Assistance deductible concept will have on states’ ability to receive federal assistance after a disaster occurs. FEMA’s Public Assistance deductible would require states to meet a predetermined, annual expenditure of state emergency management funds or disaster recovery costs to qualify for FEMA Public...
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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, today sent a letter to the Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting more information regarding the April 9th incident where a United Airlines passenger was forcibly and violently removed from an airplane on the ground at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. “The video of the United Airlines passenger being forcibly and violently removed from his seat ...
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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Darin LaHood (R-Ill.), and Grace F. Napolitano (D-Calif.) today announced the introduction of two bipartisan bills to commemorate the historical significance of Route 66. H.R. 66, establishes a commission to recommend activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Route 66 in 2026 and H.R. 801, establishes Route 66 as a National Historic Trail. “I am proud to have America’s most iconic road run through the middle of my district and it’s important we celebrat...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today gathered with Governor Bruce Rauner (R-Ill.), U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), and other leaders from state and local governments in Rochester to celebrate the completion of the widening of Route 29 from Rochester to Taylorville. Davis leads press conference celebrating the completion of Route 29 project. Click here to download The 24-year effort to widen the two-lane highway into four lanes was completed in October of 2016. The project became a priority to ...
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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and John Delaney (D-Md.) today introduced the Partnership to Build America Act, which creates a fund to provide financing to state and local governments for new infrastructure projects. This legislation encourages public-private partnerships and uses bond sales to finance the fund. "If our country is going to invest in infrastructure and spur job creation, we need innovative, bipartisan funding solutions like this legislation that brings public and private entiti...
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