The full House of Representatives Transportation & Infrastructure Committee will hold a mark-up on H.R. 2095 next week on Wednesday, June 13.

During an earlier Subcommittee markup, Committee Chairman James Oberstar offered an update to his original bill. The major differences between this update and the original bill are as follows:

(1) Time spent in deadhead transportation from duty assignment to final release is limbo time if there is an emergency such as casualty, accident, act of God, derailment, major equipment failure, or other delay from a cause unknown and unforeseeable at the time an employee leaves his/her initial terminal;
(2) In section 204, the Secretary of Transportation can reduce the maximum hours on duty or increase the minimum hours of rest only if the change is "based on scientific and medical research;"
(3) In section 601, the substitute extends the deadline for putting into place PTC;
(4) In section 606 relating to prompt medical attention, the railroad is required to promptly arrange to have the injured employee transported to the "nearest" hospital.

Other technical amendments to the bill were also approved.


All BLET members and their families are asked to call the members of the Committee and convey to them that this bill has the support of the railroad workers in their state and urge them to support the provisions of the bill.

The members of the committee are listed below.

DEMOCRATS

Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia
Jerrold Nadler, New York
Corrine Brown, Florida
Bob Filner, California
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas
Gene Taylor, Mississippi
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland
Ellen O. Tauscher, California
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania
Brian Baird, Washington
Rick Larsen, Washington
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
Julia Carson, Indiana
Timothy H. Bishop, New York
Michael H. Michaud, Maine
Brian Higgins, New York
Russ Carnahan, Missouri
John T. Salazar, Colorado
Grace F. Napolitano, California
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois
Doris O. Matsui, California
Nick Lampson, Texas
Zachary T. Space, Ohio
Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii
Bruce L. Braley, Iowa
Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania
Timothy J. Walz, Minnesota
Heath Shuler, North Carolina
Michael A. Arcuri, New York
Harry E. Mitchell, Arizona
Christopher P. Carney, Pennsylvania
John J. Hall, New York
Steve Kagen, Wisconsin
Steve Cohen, Tennessee
Jerry McNerney, California

REPUBLICANS

John L. Mica, Florida, Ranking Republican Member
Don Young, Alaska
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Howard Coble, North Carolina
John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland
Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Richard H. Baker, Louisiana
Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Jerry Moran, Kansas
Gary G. Miller, California
Robin Hayes, North Carolina
Henry E. Brown Jr., South Carolina
Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Sam Graves, Missouri
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
John Boozman, Arkansas
Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania
Ted Poe, Texas
David G. Reichert, Washington
Connie Mack, Florida
John R. "Randy" Kuhl Jr., New York
Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia
Charles W. Boustany Jr., Louisiana
Jean Schmidt, Ohio
Candice S. Miller, Michigan
Thelma D. Drake, Virginia
Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
Vern Buchanan, Florida