Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Infrastructure

Today: Senate Debates Infra Bank, Transpo Funding, Regulations, and More

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 3, 2011 | No Comments

This morning, the Senate is debating two transportation-related bills: the Rebuild America Jobs Act (S.1769) and the Long-Term Surface Transportation Extension Act (S.1786). The Rebuild America Jobs Act is a piece of President Obama’s jobs bill that was broken off in hopes that it could pass on its own. It would invest $50 billion on infrastructure […]

How Value Capture Financing Will Revitalize White Flint

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 20, 2011 | 2 Comments

White Flint, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC, should be a shining example of transit-oriented development. It’s centered on a metro station on the busy red line, sandwiched between the bustling suburban downtowns of Bethesda and Rockville. But instead, it’s “sprawling suburbia,” covered in surface parking lots and lacking a true road network. “Community members […]

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 […]

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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