Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. Senate

Foxx Rocks His Confirmation Hearing, Reveals Some Initial Priorities

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2013 | 2 Comments

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx’s Senate hearing was, by all accounts, the one “oasis of calm” on an otherwise stormy Capitol Hill yesterday. There were no sharp exchanges, no tense moments, not even any particularly tough questions. Two weeks from today, we’ll probably be calling him “Mister Secretary.” Cabinet nominees often spend all their time on […]

Live-blogging Anthony Foxx’s Senate Confirmation Hearing for DOT Secretary

By Tanya Snyder | May 22, 2013 | No Comments

4:29: Hearing adjourned. Rockefeller: “I adjourn this hearing on the supposition that you will ride the fast rail right into the secretaryship.” 4:27: Thune: We also can’t continue to borrow from general fund to fund highways. Either we need to find a way to pay for it or we need to cut our appetites. Can’t […]

A Golden Opportunity for Congress to Avoid the Transportation “Fiscal Cliff”

By Tanya Snyder | May 1, 2013 | No Comments

MAP-21 expires in a year and five months. When it does, if lawmakers haven’t already found a solution to the “transportation fiscal cliff,” they’ll have to do one of three things, according to a report issued last week by the Congressional Budget Office [PDF]: Transfer $14 billion more in general funds Raise the gas tax […]

How Amtrak Can Provide World-Class Service on the Northeast Corridor

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2013 | 6 Comments

Yesterday was a tough day to try to get attention for a Senate hearing on the future of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. After all, at least one senator had gotten a poisonous letter and everyone on Capitol Hill was on high alert. What’s more, the Amtrak hearing coincided with the vote on gun control, one of […]

Sen. Patty Murray Increases Transportation Investment in 2014 Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 15, 2013 | 1 Comment

So, right now you’re thinking, “God save me, not another post about the budget!” And you’re to be forgiven. There are two versions of the FY 2013 budget out there right now (House and Senate), for a year that’s half over. There are the budget cuts from the sequester that everyone’s still waiting to feel […]

Senate Restores MAP-21 Funding Through 2013

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 13, 2013 | No Comments

The Senate yesterday restored hundreds of millions of dollars in federal transportation spending singled out for elimination by the House of Representatives. The Senate’s continuing resolution — which would set spending levels through the end of FY 2013 — matches the transportation spending priorities laid out by MAP-21, the transportation bill hashed out in a bipartisan manner last […]

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