Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. Senate

Live-Blogging the First Meeting of the Transportation Conference Committee

By Tanya Snyder | May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment

5:41 Adjourned. Thanks for following our live-blog coverage — all 3,276 words of it. 5:40 Boxer: I heard no lines in the sand here today, I heard lots of passion. I’m going to do everything to improve the Senate bill. I’m going to work with you, but it does streamline dramatically. Sen. Inhofe wouldn’t vote […]

Seven Questions as Transportation Bill Conference Gets Underway

By Tanya Snyder | May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment

The first meeting of the transportation bill conference committee is today at 3:00. (To familiarize yourself with the participants, see Ben’s reports on the House and Senate conferees.) We’ll be live-blogging it, beginning to end. It’s unusual for conferences to meet in public, and leaders have indicated that this won’t be the only meeting they have in front of television […]

Getting to Know the Senate Conferees

By Ben Goldman | Apr 25, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Senate unveiled its list of conference committee delegates yesterday to a widespread lack of surprise. Ten of the 14 conferees are either chair or ranking member of a committee (or subcommittee) charged with writing part of the Senate transportation bill. Their job will be to defend their work from a House delegation that has […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your 2012 Transportation Bill Senate Conferees

By Ben Goldman | Apr 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Senate has designated the 14 members who will represent the upper chamber on the transportation bill conference committee. The House will designate its own conferees soon, and the entire group will be tasked with reconciling the differences between the Senate’s two-year bill and the 90-day “dirty” extension passed by the House last week. Democrat conferees: […]

This Week: Conference Gladiators Could Be Named, Senate Budget Stalls

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 23, 2012 | No Comments

This week, the House and Senate are expected to name the people they’ll send to conference to come up with a new transportation bill. The Senate will be bringing its bipartisan bill; the House is bringing a bunch of poison pills. The president says he will veto anything with a Keystone pipeline approval in it, […]

House GOP Tries to Horse-Trade Senate Bill For Keystone Pipeline

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 13, 2012 | No Comments

In another desperate attempt to push forward their fossil fuel agenda, House Republicans have indicated that even though they’ve been incapable of passing a transportation bill, they’re willing to go to conference committee and pass the Senate bill. All the Senate Democrats have to do in return is approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Our sources […]

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