House Dems Ask IG To Investigate ATC Lobbying Efforts
The request, seeking whether DOT officials violated lobbying restrictions, ratchets up an already contentious battle over the ATC proposal.
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking an investigation into whether certain U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) officials violated lobbying laws in a push for support of a proposal to carve the air traffic control organization out of the FAA. Reps. Pete DeFazio (D-Oregon), the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Nita Lowey (D-New York), the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, and David Price (D-North Carolina), the ranking member of the transportation appropriations subcommittee, yesterday formally asked the DOT Inspector General (IG) to investigate whether political DOT appointees “violated federal law, including the Anti-Lobbying Act.”
