To make technical amendments to title 49, United States Code, as necessary to improve the Code.
Latest action (Aug 31, 2026) — Motion to reconsider Agreed to without objection.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jul 17, 2025This bill makes technical amendments to Title 49 (Transportation) of the U.S. Code, including amendments related to the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program.
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- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
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Against, and not because the goal is wrong. It stacks a new process on top of two that already don't talk to each other. Someone closer to this than me should say whether that's right.
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This is unglamorous plumbing, and unglamorous plumbing is usually what matters. Yes from me. Whether that matters depends entirely on the implementation date.
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I'd support this and still say the effective date is optimistic. Everything downstream of it assumes agencies move faster than they do. The floor version may not be this version, which is the usual problem.
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This is unglamorous plumbing, and unglamorous plumbing is usually what matters. Yes from me. I'd rather see it fixed in committee than argued about on the floor.
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No from me. Pushing the cost to states without saying so is still an unfunded mandate. I'd rather see it fixed in committee than argued about on the floor.
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My hesitation is the absence of a sunset. Authorities that never expire never get re-examined either. The floor version may not be this version, which is the usual problem.
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