WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled a hearing on nominees for Federal Railroad Administration administrator and the last remaining open seat on Amtrak’s board of directors.
The hearing for FRA nominee David Fink, Amtrak nominee Robert Gleason, and two other officials — David Fogael, assistant secretary of commerce, and Pierre Gentin, general counsel of the Department of Commerce — will be held at 10 a.m. ET on May 13, 2025. It will be streamed live on the committee website. A direct link was not immediately provided, although a YouTube channel for Commerce Republicans is here and one for its Democrats is here.
Fink, former president of Pan Am Railways, was announced as the FRA nominee in December [see “Trump names former Pan Am president …,” Trains News Wire, Dec. 21, 2024]. The nomination of Gleason, president of an insurance firm and former head of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, came in March [see “Trump nominates Robert Gleason …,” News Wire, March 12, 2025].
