Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. Senate

Barbara Boxer Commends Obama’s Long-term Transpo Plan

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 15, 2011 | No Comments

As Chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, Barbara Boxer may be the single most important voice on the future of Obama administration’s six-year transportation proposal. And yesterday, the California Democrat gave her qualified endorsement to the President’s transformative plan. In a statement to the press, Boxer praised the White House’s […]

Transportation Committee Shrinks, EPW Announces New Members

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 28, 2011 | No Comments

The committees with jurisdiction over transportation are shrinking. In the Senate, committee membership is only going from 21 to 20. But the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is experiencing a much more significant belt-tightening, shrinking from a committee of 75 to just 59. Of those 59, 33 are Republicans and 26 are Democrats. Congressional staff […]

Senate Committee Backs Infrastructure Spending (But Not For Bike Lanes)

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 26, 2011 | 11 Comments

“We need to take care of this sooner than later,” Sen. Barbara Boxer said this morning in reference to a surface transportation reauthorization. “We can’t keep doing extension after extension.” Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee even has all its members named (that should happen in the next day or so, according to […]

Sen. Boxer: Working With Mica, Inhofe on a Long-Term Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 6, 2011 | 2 Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer told reporters today that she had an “excellent”, “wonderful” meeting with Rep. John Mica (R-FL), the new chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She confirmed that they’re working on a “longer-term” transportation bill and have come up with many points of agreement. We’ll let you know more details about […]

Send in Your Transpo Questions for the 112th Congress

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 5, 2011 | 11 Comments

The new Congress has been sworn in and John Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House, 241-173. Nancy Pelosi has handed him the (strangely over-sized) gavel and he just took the oath of office. In his acceptance speech, he stressed fiscal discipline and spending cuts. The first vote the new Congress will take will […]

And the Streetsies Go To…

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 3, 2011 | No Comments

Happy 2011! May this year bring peace, harmony, and a six-year transportation reauthorization. The best part about 2011 is that it’s not 2010. Last year was a tough one at the federal level: constant extensions of both the transportation bill and the general budget, no progress on an adequate funding source for infrastructure investment, and […]

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