Jeff Davis

Senior Fellow at @EnoTrans. Editor of @EnoTranspoWkly. Congress junkie. Man about town. Opinions my own.

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Here's how all this plays out:
House unable to elect Speaker on Jan 3 or many days after.
There can be no joint session to count electoral votes before the House gets a Speaker, Jan 6 or later.
If no Speaker by noon Jan 20:
Acting President Chuck Grassley
ASSUME DEER DEAD

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approves the surface transportation bill by a vote of 62 to 2 after a 13-hour markup session

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: THE SENATE will go home until June, leaving the reconciliation bill unfinished.

THUNE just told senators in the room.

All because of the DOJ weaponization fund.

House is expected to follow suit soon.

me and @AndrewDesiderio

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

@davidshepardson @FAA_Bryan The main author of the Air Commerce Act was Sen. Hiram Bingham, who was also the real life model for the fictional character Indiana Jones.

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Had I been invited to the lunch with King Charles, I would have brought along the copy of the Senate Manual that he was given during his 1970 visit to the Capitol, which he must have accidentally misplaced because I found it in a used book store for $20

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

@SeanTrende @Heminator @MZHemingway Plus, he never gave interviews to Guitar Player, etc to talk about his setup and techniques, never released a real live album, and constantly had IP lawyers taking down all live clips off from the Internet.

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

The new budget will start paring this back, but we seem to have hit peak infrastructure spending this year/next year in terms of real outlays for completed work...

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

@dilanesper Also because, on the night they finalized the ARRANGEMENT bill, Appropriations Committee staff inadvertently left a 9/30/2017 drop-dead date for all ARRA outlays to be complete, which meant CHSRA had to build the fastest-to-complete portion at all costs

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

@annmphelan I will say that the big space museum in Hutchinson Kansas, Cosmosphere, where I bought the Space Monkey, has a SR-71 suspended in mid air where you can reach up and touch the nose

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

@davidshepardson Harc!!!

[David Shepardson @davidshepardson]

New: air traffic stopped at DC area airports per @FAANews

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

The Wire ended 18 yrs ago today. It’s been taught in Ivy League schools, law schools & film schools. David Simon was interviewed by a sitting president about its lasting impact. Cited in a State Supreme Court ruling. Often hailed by critics as the best ever. Never won an Emmy.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

The most commonly encountered price for diesel has jumped from $3.69/gal a week ago to... $4.99/gal today. Can't underscore what a massive jolt this is to the logistics, trucking, ag sectors.

[The Air Current @theaircurrent]

SCOOP: NTSB board member J. Todd Inman abruptly departs safety watchdog https://t.co/y2NgSUxWEa (via @willguisbond & @jonostrower) #staycurrent

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Treasury finally released the detailed breakdown of federal Highway Trust Fund finances for the last fiscal year (2025). $45.4 billion in actual taxes on highway users was about $29 billion short of spending, covered mostly by spend-down of the big bailout transfer made in 2021.

[Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis]

I’m honestly shocked how few people I talked to today have seen Wargames.
It’s literally about an AI nearly destroying the world when it plays a game of Global Thermonuclear War.

What would Stephen Falken think about the Anthropic / DOD fight?

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

There it is per the WSJ

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

House defeats Senate-passed bipartisan ROTOR Act, designed to prevent military- commercial accidents like one at DCA. Pentagon was opposed. Two-thirds was needed - backers were 2 votes shy.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Many college professors are discovering that students learn less when they have laptops open. Many of us are banning their use in class.

Putting computers and tablets on students desks in K-12 may turn out to be among the costliest mistakes in the history of education

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Yep. “Sustainable” for the planet means maximizing how much nutritional food can be grown or raised on each acre/hectare of land…

[Michael Grunwald @MikeGrunwald]

Sorry, but more sustainable farming isn’t more natural farming. It’s farming that doesn’t overrun so much of the earth. That means higher-yield farming that makes more food per acre, so it doesn’t need so many acres to make food.

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Saturday night: DHS announces that TSA will shutdown PreCheck because of the funding lapse.
Sunday morning: the Administration does a 180 and keeps Pre open:

[David Shepardson @davidshepardson]

Breaking: @TSA reverses course and says PreCheck remans operational