Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Federal Funding

Senators Hammer LaHood for Specifics on Funding His Transpo Plan

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood played defense – and dodgeball – this morning as members of the Senate Budget Committee grilled him on how he proposed to pay for the administration’s new transportation agenda. Secretary Ray LaHood indicates how many details he’s going to give Congress on how to fund the transportation budget proposal (Photo: AP) […]

AASHTO: Government Shutdown Could Cost Transportation Sector $100M/Day

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

If the House, Senate, and President Obama don’t agree on a course of action by the end of this week, the U.S. will be left with no federal budget, and the government will shut down. Transit agencies and construction interests don’t seem alarmed, but the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials estimates that […]

How Hard Will the Senate Fight Back Against House Spending Cuts?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 22, 2011 | 4 Comments

Members of Congress worked all day Friday, until 4:42 Saturday morning, to finish voting on hundreds of amendments and, finally, the final HR 1 bill to set spending levels for the rest of 2011. In the end, the budget bill they passed included 400 amendments and cuts $61 billion out of everything from Planned Parenthood […]

In Age of Budget Cuts, Why Are Billions of Federal Rail Dollars Going Unused?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 18, 2011 | 3 Comments

If I told you there was a fantastic, $35 billion federal program to lend money for railroads to improve their infrastructure, you’d probably assume one of the following: It must be in China or Europe, not here. I’m about to tell you that Republicans just cut it from the budget. It’s over-subscribed, like TIGER, with […]

Bike Trail Funding Survives 583 Amendments

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 18, 2011 | 15 Comments

Bet you weren’t expecting to hear any good news from the floor of the House today, were you? Turns out not everyone in Congress is as axe-happy as some high-profile Republicans. For example, Amtrak survived one attempt to cut all its funding and another to cut $447 million. (Amtrak funding does stand to lose $224 […]

House GOP to Senate: Pass Our Budget or Shut Down the Government

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 17, 2011 | No Comments

House Speaker John Boehner won’t take no for an answer. As the House struggles to consider and vote on nearly 600 amendments to the FY2011 budget – in a process the GOP is heralding as unprecedented democracy and the Democrats are calling chaos – the prospects for consensus on the continuing resolution is becoming increasingly […]

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