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Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) has been named the new Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He has made it clear that his focus will be mostly on infrastructure. We think that includes things like the infrastructure needed to enable Intelligent Transportation Systems, Automated Vehicles, safe drone navigation, etc.

We are pretty sure he agrees with us. Here is a clip of him talking about it at a hearing in 2015.