Transportation Officials Praise Selection of Snow

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img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>President Bush's selection of railroad executive John W. Snow to be Treasury Secretary will help give transportation issues high-level visibility in the administration's economic policy, trucking and transportation observers said last week.

President Bush picked Snow, the chairman and chief executive of CSX Corp. of Richmond, Va., to replace Paul H. O'Neill on Dec. 9. O'Neill and economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey were dismissed in an effort to improve relations with Congress and push an economic plan with tax cuts as a centerpiece.

Among the transportation issues the Bush administration will face in 2003 are revisions to hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers and congressional reauthorization of surface transportation legislation.

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