Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Lessons From the Former Chairman: Oberstar on Ending the Interstate Era

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog had a chance today to ask the former Democratic chief of the House Transportation Committee, Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota, about life since the 2010 election, when he lost by a hair to Republican Chip Cravaack. He said he’s spending his post-Congress time traveling to France, getting paid to say things he used to […]

Mica Won’t Say Where Transpo Funding Will Come From; LaHood Defends TE

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) said this morning that getting permission from Republican leadership to find more revenues to fund the transportation bill was a “major breakthrough” but still won’t say where the money will come from. Mica told an audience at a Washington Post-sponsored forum on transportation that passing yet another extension […]

Transpo Committee Dems Submit Deficit-Reduction Ideas to Super Committee

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

Tomorrow is the deadline for Congressional committees to advise the super committee on how they’d like to see the deficit reduction plan formulated. The Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee submitted theirs today [PDF], divided into three sections: “Creating Jobs,” “Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse,” and “Promoting Efficiency and Reform of Government.” For […]

McConnell Spoiling For a Fight Over Jobs Bill, House Passes Budget Extension

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 4, 2011 | 1 Comment

Amid prognostications that the jobs bill is “dead” — including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s announcement that the House won’t vote on the bill in its entirety — Senate Minority Leaders Mitch McConnell said today that he’s just itching for a vote on the Senate floor. Yes, it’s a tactic to make Obama look bad. […]

Cantor Orders Up Tax Cuts, Hold the Jobs

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 3, 2011 | No Comments

Congressional insiders say that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is refusing to hold an “all or nothing” vote on President Obama’s jobs bill. Cantor says he’ll bring “elements” of the bill to the floor but not the whole bill. It’s pretty clear which elements Cantor approves of. He expressed his preferences soon after the president unveiled […]

Republicans Have Their Own Plan to Pay for Infrastructure Jobs: Oil Drilling

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 30, 2011 | 8 Comments

President Obama has proposed a plan to pay for the American Jobs Act, the $447 billion bill to create 1.9 million jobs, including $50 billion for infrastructure. His “pay-for” plan includes limitations on itemized deductions for the wealthy and the elimination of some tax loopholes for oil and gas companies. Republicans have a different idea, […]

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