Lobbying Relationship

Client

Norfolk Southern

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Lobbying firm

Summit Strategies Government Affairs LLC

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  • Issues related to the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Monitored congressional oversight and consideration of railroad operations and safety technology safety legislation. S. 576 & H.R. 1674, the Railway Safety Act; H.R.1633, the RAIL Act.
  • Issues related to the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Monitor surface transportation funding opportunities, including freight and highway-rail grade crossing improvements.

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General Issues: Railroads, Transportation

Spending: about $740,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Bills mentioned

S.808: Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2015

Sponsor: John Thune (R-S.D.)

S.650: Railroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act

Sponsor: Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)

S.1006: Positive Train Control Safety Act

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

H.R.3651: Positive Train Control Enforcement and Implementation Act of 2015

Sponsor: Bill Shuster (R-Pa.)

S.1647: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act

Sponsor: James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

S.1451: RAILS Act

Sponsor: Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)

H.R.233: Safe Freight Act of 2017

Sponsor: Don Young (R-Alaska)

H.R.1748: Safe Freight Act of 2019

Sponsor: Don Young (R-Alaska)

S.2302: America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019

Sponsor: John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)

H.R.2: Moving Forward Act

Sponsor: Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

H.R.3684: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Sponsor: Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

S.1953: Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021

Sponsor: Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.)

S.576: Railway Safety Act of 2023

Sponsor: Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

H.R.1674: Railway Safety Act of 2023

Sponsor: Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.)

H.R.1633: RAIL Act

Sponsor: Bill Johnson (R-Ohio)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Jim Kolb Staff Director for the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee from 2007 - 2014. Director of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation - 1998-2001. Staff Director for the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee from 2007 - 2014. Director of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation - 1998-2001.
James "Jim" Kolb Staff Director for the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee from 2007 - 2014. Director of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation - 1998-2001. Staff Director for the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee from 2007 - 2014. Director of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation - 1998-2001.

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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