{"id":37829,"date":"2015-06-24T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/senate-confirms-daniel-elliott-to-stb-reappointment\/"},"modified":"2015-06-24T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:59:43","slug":"senate-confirms-daniel-elliott-to-stb-reappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/senate-confirms-daniel-elliott-to-stb-reappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Daniel Elliott to STB reappointment","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11762\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11762 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Elliott, Dan; Dan Elliott; Elliott; STB; STB Chairman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/d_elliott_070411_small-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Elliott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Senate on June 22 easily confirmed the nomination of Daniel Elliott for a reappointment on the Surface Transportation Board.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott\u2019s nomination was confirmed by voice vote. During his confirmation hearing, Elliott said he would ensure the board continues \u201cto facilitate the resolution of service issues so that interstate commerce flows as smoothly and efficiently as possible in support of the U.S. economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott was a lawyer with the United Transportation Union. He was the board&#8217;s chairman from 2009 until December, when his term expired.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=38636&amp;t=Senate-Confirms-Daniel-Elliott-to-Surface-Transportation-Board-Reappointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transport Topics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on June 22 easily confirmed the nomination of Daniel Elliott for a reappointment on the Surface Transportation Board. Elliott\u2019s nomination was confirmed by voice vote. During his confirmation hearing, Elliott said he would ensure the board continues \u201cto facilitate the resolution of service issues so that interstate commerce flows as smoothly and efficiently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":20282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[1153,2832,534,523,524],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senate confirms Daniel Elliott to STB reappointment - SMART Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/senate-confirms-daniel-elliott-to-stb-reappointment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate confirms Daniel Elliott to STB reappointment - SMART Union\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senate on June 22 easily confirmed the nomination of Daniel Elliott for a reappointment on the Surface Transportation Board. 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