Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Another Shutdown Avoided

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 29, 2011 | No Comments

It’s getting to be a little like the Boy Who Cried Wolf over on Capitol Hill. I mean, it’s hard to get all revved up about an impending government shutdown when Congress always insists on taking negotiations to the edge and they always figure out something right before the deadline. The 2011 fiscal year ends […]

Sen. Menendez Introduces Bill to Plan For Livable Communities

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has taken up where former Senator Chris Dodd left off. Last week, Menendez offered a fresh version of Dodd’s Livable Communities Act. The bill would formally authorize the HUD Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities and its Regional Planning and Community Challenge grant programs, restoring funding for those programs to […]

Mica, GOP Leadership Looking to Raise Transportation Spending Levels in Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2011 | 8 Comments

According to yet another great report from Jeff Davis at Transportation Weekly, House Republican leadership has given House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica permission to seek additional revenues to fund the transportation reauthorization at levels $15 billion higher than initially proposed. One Republican source, quoted in Transportation Weekly, said that given the persistently high unemployment rates, […]

Dealbreaker: Senate Rejects House Budget Due to Lack of Car Subsidies

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2011 | 7 Comments

What’s keeping Congress from passing an extension to the federal budget? Democratic protection of automobile subsidies. After midnight last night, the House finally managed to narrowly pass a budget extension bill, but Senate leaders have already rejected it out of hand, since it includes about half the disaster relief they’d like and cuts $1.5 billion […]

Senate Saves a Sliver For High-Speed Rail

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 22, 2011 | 13 Comments

President Obama had sought $8 billion for high-speed rail in 2012. The House-passed budget had exactly zero. The Senate bill approved by the Transportation subcommittee Tuesday followed suit. But the full Appropriations Committee yesterday put $100 million back into next year’s budget for the president’s signature transportation initiative. That’s still starvation wages for the program, […]

Federal Support for Smart Planning Is on the Line Tomorrow

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 19, 2011 | 1 Comment

Tomorrow, a Senate panel will vote on two budget bills for FY2012, one of which is for transportation and housing programs. The draft of the bill isn’t available until after the subcommittee markup tomorrow, but Smart Growth America is calling attention to the fact that it’s important to make sure the bill includes funding for the […]

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