Your morning transportation speed-read:

The recession is slamming transit systems around the county.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to quickly approve a gate-swap deal between Delta and U.S. Airlines.

Amtrak has been sued in the aftermath of a crash of a train and a truck in Nevada.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is drawing criticism from the right for approving a central Florida commuter train.

Saying that many of the accidents it investigates are caused by fatigue, employees at the National Transportation Safety Board will undergo training on how to deal with being tired on the jobs, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said Tuesday.

"After more than 40 years of accident investigation, we know the insidious role fatigue plays in transportation accidents," Hersman wrote on the NTSB's "Safety Compass" blog. "Fatigue affects all aspect of human performance — it reduces reaction time, impairs judgment, degrades memory, and interferes with communication."

Hersman said that in an effort to practice what the NTSB preaches, all of its employees, including her, will take part in a "Fatigue Management Program."

The GOP presidential candidate will also introduce a bill to force the agency to follow existing laws against inappropriate contact.

Like his previous attempts to take on a populist tone, the proposal has drawn the ire of the business community.

Freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) took President Obama to task for his remarks about tax breaks for corporate jets this week.

Rubio, who many conservative activists hope will be the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee next year, said Obama was playing class warfare.

“Quite frankly, I am both disappointed for our country and shocked at some of the rhetoric,” he said in an interview with the conservative National Review. “It was rhetoric, I thought, that was more appropriate for some left-wing strong man than for the president of the United States.”

The government should pay a higher rate for miles employees drive for work, the National Treasury Employees Union said.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) reached an agreement on how to respond to the spate of sleeping controllers that made headlines earlier this year, the organizations said Friday.

Under the agreement, controllers would be allowed to request leave if they feel they are not alert enough to guide airplanes. They would not be allowed to take naps on the job or on breaks, which some scientists suggested would vastly improve alertness in flight towers.

Each side said the agreement would reduce incidents like the the ones that resulted in multiple air traffic controllers being fired as a series of reports emerged involving them either sleeping or being inattentive and making errors on the job. In one case, a controller was discovered to be watching a movie when the audio of the film was distributed over radio airways to the pilot of a military plane.

“The American public must have confidence that our nation’s air traffic controllers are rested and ready to work,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said of the agreement in a written statement. “We have the safest air transportation system in the world but we needed to make changes and we are doing that.”

The House has planned a few key hearings during next week's abbreviated schedule, including one that will explore what Republicans say is an anti-business proposal from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a hearing July 7 titled "Rushing Union Elections: Protecting the Interests of Big Labor at the Expense of Workers' Free Choice." That hearing will examine NLRB's proposal to change union election rules.

Florida Democrats said Friday that the state's Gov. Rick Scott (R) rejected $2.4 billion in federal money for a high-speed rail project in the state solely because President Obama supported it. 

Scott's administration announced Friday it was allowing a different proposed commuter rail plan in Orlando to proceed, months after Scott argued that the proposed high-speed railway between Tampa and Orlando was not a sound investment for taxpayers because it would not generate enough revenue to be sustainable.

Critics had made similar arguments against the proposed Orlando train, SunRail, but Scott did not put the brakes on that one.