Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Anthony Foxx

Foxx: “We’ve Got to Look at Transportation in a Multimodal Fashion”

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 1, 2013 | 3 Comments

Tomorrow marks the end of Anthony Foxx’s first month as the U.S. secretary of transportation. Today he met with reporters who have been eager for an on-the-record meeting with him. Though Foxx has been confident and specific in answering questions by members of Congress, he was more reserved with the press gaggle. He repeated some […]

At First Hearing, Foxx Defends Projects That Advance the “Public Good”

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 25, 2013 | 2 Comments

Should the nation’s largest infrastructure loan program finance projects that make the transportation system more productive and efficient? Hell no, says Senator David Vitter, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Hundreds of millions of dollars should be available to any old project that comes along, as long as it has a […]

Anthony Foxx Takes Office As U.S. Transportation Secretary

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 2, 2013 | 1 Comment

Anthony Foxx, who resigned yesterday as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sworn in today at 11 a.m. as the new U.S. secretary of transportation. The Department of Transportation sent the following information in a press release after the ceremony: Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx was sworn in as the nation’s 17th Secretary of Transportation by […]

Foxx’s Responses on Bike Questions: Vaguely Promising, But Mostly Vague

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 28, 2013 | No Comments

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx was unanimously confirmed yesterday by the full Senate to become the new chief of U.S. DOT. He’ll be sworn in soon, probably next week. At Foxx’s confirmation hearing, many senators submitted questions for the record – abbreviated to QFRs in Congressional parlance – and received answers before they had to vote on […]

Anthony Foxx Confirmed Unanimously as U.S. Secretary of Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 27, 2013 | 7 Comments

After a remarkably smooth and uncontentious process, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has just been confirmed by the full Senate as the 17th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Not a single senator voted against — or even abstained from — his confirmation. Coming to the position as the mayor of a major southern city, Foxx brings with […]

Foxx Rocks His Confirmation Hearing, Reveals Some Initial Priorities

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2013 | 2 Comments

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx’s Senate hearing was, by all accounts, the one “oasis of calm” on an otherwise stormy Capitol Hill yesterday. There were no sharp exchanges, no tense moments, not even any particularly tough questions. Two weeks from today, we’ll probably be calling him “Mister Secretary.” Cabinet nominees often spend all their time on […]

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