Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Performance Measures

Senate Leaders Vow to “Marry” Competing Infrastructure Bank Proposals

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

At a Commerce Committee hearing today, Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) spoke out in favor of their infrastructure bank proposal, while Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and John Rockefeller (D-WV) championed their own legislation. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who is a member of the Commerce Committee as well as chair of the Environment […]

What Bipartisanship Hath Wrought: Zilch for Bike-Ped in Senate Bill Outline

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

Update 7/20: It has come to our attention that the complete draft of the Senate bill will include a hard commitment to bike-ped programs. Senate staff tells us that Sen. Barbara Boxer worked hard and was able to maintain her priorities in the bill, including dedicated federal support for bike infrastructure. More details will come out […]

Bi-Partisan Political Veterans Team Up to Design a New Gas Tax System

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 12, 2011 | 1 Comment

Transportation reformers around the country have long been disappointed at politicians’ unwillingness to raise the gas tax to pay for infrastructure. It seems, to many, an obvious and necessary solution for the chronic underfunding of our transportation system. Meanwhile, to the politicians, it is just as obvious that raising consumer taxes during a recession is […]

Bipartisan Policy Center Proposes Major Redesign of Federal Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

With the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee set to introduce its reauthorization bill the first week of July and the Senate EPW Committee already behind on its own timeline to introduce its own, think tanks and policy groups have a limited amount of time left to influence the process. The Bipartisan Policy Center got into […]