Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. Senate

Congress Comes to the Bike Summit (and the Bike Summit Goes to Congress)

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 7, 2013 | 2 Comments

Tuesday morning, Rep. Earl Blumenauer took his usual place behind the podium at the National Bike Summit. (He never misses a Bike Summit.) “I’m coming up this morning and smiling at someone going past me on the bike lane on Pennsylvania Avenue,” Blumenauer said. “Remember four years ago, I talked about risking my life on […]

Rockefeller, Lautenberg Re-Introduce Infrastructure Bank Bill in Senate

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 27, 2013 | No Comments

These two men are serious about creating an infrastructure bank before they leave office. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) — both titans of the Commerce Committee, both retiring in 2015 — yesterday re-introduced legislation to create such a bank. Their previous bill died at the end of the last Congressional session. That […]

Jay Rockefeller to Retire From Senate in 2015

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 11, 2013 | No Comments

Sen. Jay Rockefeller is expected to announce later today that he won’t run for re-election in 2014. The West Virginia Democrat will have served 30 years in the Senate. He chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, one of the four Senate committees – though probably the least of the four – that crafts the surface transportation […]

Mica’s New Post Gives Him a Good Vantage Point For Sniping at Amtrak

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 3, 2013 | 6 Comments

Perhaps Rep. John Mica’s most remarkable legacy as chair of the House Transportation Committee is the single-minded focus he gave to attacking Amtrak. Under the guise of wanting it to succeed, Mica has repeatedly excoriated it as a “Soviet-style monopoly” and a waste of taxpayer dollars. He’s tried to sell off its only profitable line, […]

Transit Tax Benefit Equalized With Parking Benefit in Fiscal Cliff Deal

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 2, 2013 | 9 Comments

Happy New Year, transit riders! Thanks to some shrewd maneuvering on the part of some U.S. Senators, transit commuters will be able to claim as much in tax benefits as car commuters do in 2013. Slipped into the fiscal cliff deal approved by the House of Representatives last night was a provision to boost the […]

Patty Murray as Senate Budget Chief: What It Means for Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

In transportation circles, all eyes are on Rep. Bill Shuster, who was just tapped to head the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the House. And you may have heard about how GOP leadership appointed a climate change denier to head the House Committee on Science. But on the Senate side, there’s some good news for advocates […]

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