Patricia Doersch is a partner in the firm’s Transportation, Infrastructure & Local Government Public Policy Practice. She assists transportation agencies, corporations and municipal governments in achieving their goals before the federal government, with a focus on assisting automotive industry clients address federal regulatory requirements and compliance matters.
Patricia brings a wealth of experience shaping transportation policy and legislation within the federal government. She served as Majority Counsel for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Highways and Transit Subcommittee, advancing congressional priorities on highway funding, environmental streamlining and motor carrier safety. There, she crafted the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act, which created the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and substantially increased funding for truck and bus safety oversight, research and crash prevention.
While an attorney with the Federal Highway Administration, Patricia was the principal drafter of the Administration’s bill reauthorizing the US$40 billion annual federal-aid highway program.
Patricia also served as Legislative Counsel for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), advocating on behalf of 1,500 transit providers and private suppliers on Capitol Hill and at federal agencies on issues from transportation funding, finance and tax policy to wide-ranging federal grant requirements such as Buy America.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Patricia Doersch
- Winter Work: Congressional Action Items During This Election Year - (Posted On Friday, January 05, 2024)
- Biden Administration Finalizes Greenhouse Gas Target Rule that is Likely to Draw Challenges - (Posted On Monday, December 04, 2023)
- Lack of Consensus, Lapse in Appropriations: Anatomy of a Federal Government Shutdown - (Posted On Wednesday, September 20, 2023)
- White House Finalizes Long-awaited Build America, Buy America (BABA) Guidance - (Posted On Friday, August 25, 2023)
- White House Finalizes Long-awaited Build America, Buy America, (BABA) Guidance - (Posted On Thursday, August 24, 2023)
- The Automotive Recall Landscape in the US - (Posted On Thursday, December 08, 2022)
- Transition 2020 | Building Back Better: Transportation and Infrastructure in the 117th Congress - (Posted On Thursday, November 12, 2020)
- FY 2018 Transportation Appropriations; Presidential Events on Infrastructure Initiative; President Appoints Deputy FAA Administrator - (Posted On Monday, June 12, 2017)
- President Trump to Highlight Infrastructure Initiative This Week; FAA Reauthorization Update - (Posted On Monday, June 05, 2017)
- President’s Budget; FAA Reauthorization; Drone Registration Rule; GHG Rule; MPO Consolidation Rule - (Posted On Monday, May 22, 2017)