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Braun Send Letter To Buttigieg Requesting Documents Removed From DOT Website Be Reinstated
WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Braun, Senator John Cornyn, and Senator Cynthia Lummis have penned a letter to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg to request that documents that were signed and submitted for publication in the Federal Register by senior DOT officials during the previous administration but then subsequently removed from DOT’s website be once again made publicly available.
During the final months of the Trump Administration, senior DOT officials signed and submitted for publication in the Federal Register a series of consequential rules that were the culmination of serious, ongoing stakeholder engagement.
Upon submission to the Office of the Federal Register, these rules were made accessible by the public on DOT’s website as PDF documents. However, it has since been brought to our attention that these rules have been removed from DOT’s website and are no longer available to the public
Rather than advancing the specific priorities of the Trump Administration, these rules are widely agreed to be nonpartisan and enjoy the broad support of stakeholders to be retained by the Biden Administration.
The senators said, “Companies need to know what rules the government expects them to follow, and we are calling on the Department of Transportation to make documents related to rules that were removed from their website publicly available in the interest of transparency and to avoid confusion among the companies being regulated.â€
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