Eugene Mulero

Eugene Mulero

Senior Reporter

@eugenemulero

Eugene Mulero is a senior reporter at Transport Topics where he reports on Congress, trends in intermodal connectivity and federal elections.


Government, Business

Foxx Calls on Congress to Boost Highway Trust Fund

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx ramped up his call May 13 for congressional leaders to fund infrastructure projects around the country by shoring up a federal highway account that is expected to be insolvent in August.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 13, 2014
Government, Business

Lawmakers to Unveil $8.2 Billion Bill That Deepens Ports Ahead of Panama Canal Expansion

House and Senate transportation leaders said they would unveil an $8.2 billion water policy bill that would approve the deepening of U.S. ports to accommodate larger ships traveling through an expanded Panama Canal next year.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 12, 2014
Government, Business

House Subcommittee Approves $52 Billion Transportation, Housing Spending Bill

House appropriators on May 7 easily approved a $52 billion spending bill that would fund transportation and housing programs in fiscal 2015.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 8, 2014
Government, Business

Senate EPW Panel to Mark Up Transportation Bill May 15

The top transportation policy writers in the Senate said they would introduce a six-year transportation bill May 12 and scheduled the bill’s committee consideration for May 15, more than two weeks after the Obama administration unveiled its four-year proposal.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 8, 2014
Government, Business

Boxer to Unveil Long-Term Transportation Bill

The top transportation authorizer in the Senate said she would unveil a long-term transportation bill May 8, responding to concerns raised by industry and government officials over a dwindling federal highway account that supports infrastructure projects.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 7, 2014
Government, Business

House Transportation Bill Funds Highway Account, Safety Programs

House appropriators unveiled a transportation bill May 6 that would provide more than $52 billion for infrastructure and housing programs in fiscal 2015, and fund a key federal highway account if congressional policy writers pass a new highway bill this year.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 6, 2014
Government, Business

Senate Panel to Review Cash-Strapped Highway Trust Fund May 6

Senate tax writers will examine ways to keep the Highway Trust Fund’s road and transit programs funded before the account runs out of money later this summer.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 5, 2014
Government, Business

Foxx to Talk Transportation Funding at May 7 Senate Hearing

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will make his first congressional appearance next week since unveiling a four-year, $302 billion transportation proposal this week, in an effort to press lawmakers to advance a transportation bill this year.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
May 1, 2014
Government, Business

Foxx Sends Four-Year Transportation Bill to Congress

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sent Congress a four-year transportation bill that relies on business tax reforms as a way to boost funds for a federal highway account that is quickly running out of money.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
April 29, 2014
Government, Business, Safety

Preliminary NTSB Report Outlines Events in FedEx Calif. Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report April 25 confirming the sequence of events in the fatal crash involving a FedEx Freight truck and a bus in Orland, Calif., earlier this month.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
April 25, 2014