Obama to nominate Rogoff for FTA position
Staff director of the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee is a veteran of the last three surface transportation bills dating back to 1991.
President Obama Wednesday announced he will nominate Peter Rogoff, staff director of the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, to lead the Federal Transit Administration.
The expert on infrastructure budgeting and finance issues has served on the Senate Appropriations Committee for 22 years, the last 14 as staff director of the Transportation-HUD Subcommittee. He is a veteran of the last three surface transportation bills dating back to 1991. If confirmed, he will join FTA as Congress gears up to renew the current transportation law, which expires Oct. 1.
FTA provides more than $10 billion a year in financial assistance through formula and discretionary programs to support transportation across the country, according to the agency. Rogoff has had a key role in advising lawmakers on the operating and capital needs of Amtrak, including the initiation and financing of the high-speed Acela service, as well as on the financing of dozens of new light rail and bus rapid-transit systems.