Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

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, […]

The Auto Industry Wants Your Thanks

By Anne Lutz Fernandez | Apr 23, 2012 | 11 Comments

Feeling warmer and fuzzier about the auto industry bailout? With the help of the Obama reelection campaign, the industry is convincing more Americans that the $80 billion they forked over to save it were dollars well spent. In the latest Pew poll, the public responded more positively toward the bailout than ever before, with 56 […]

Federal Transpo Policy Entering New Era, Say NYC Officials. Now What?

By Noah Kazis | Apr 5, 2012 | No Comments

It’s a new era for federal transportation policy, say the top New York City Department of Transportation officials tracking action on Capitol Hill. We just don’t know what kind of era it’s going to be. “If this was 1996 or 1985 it would be pretty clear where we would go with federal transportation policy, with […]

Congress Agrees to Kick the Can for 90 More Days

By Ben Goldman | Mar 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, before taking off for a two-week recess, Congress passed a three-month extension of SAFETEA-LU, the ninth since it first expired on September 30, 2009. It now only needs the president’s signature sometime before midnight on Saturday to become law. That means that on June 26, 2012, current transportation policy will have been operating under […]

The Utter Futility of a Gas Tax “Holiday”

By Ben Goldman | Mar 28, 2012 | 4 Comments

Disclaimer: The House and Senate, in the grand scheme of things, have plenty of time to hack together a short-term extension of transportation funding, or even to pass the Senate bill outright if they felt like it. Sometimes, though, to the outside observer (even to the cross-eyed reporter) it sure does look like we could […]

GOP Budget Would Cut Transpo to the Bone

By Ben Goldman | Mar 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

Wednesday night, the House Budget Committee narrowly passed — by one vote — the 2013 federal budget proposed by chairman Paul Ryan. It calls for all kinds of spending cuts, casts aside the bargains struck during last year’s budget debacle, and asserts that by 2050, all federal spending outside of entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid) should only equal […]

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