Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Barack Obama

Amidst Budget Impasse, GOP Tries and Fails to Gut Clean Air Act

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With budget talks reaching a critical pass to avert a government shutdown, House Republicans have been busy passing an ideological wishlist, including an attempt to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from “raising taxes.” H.R. 910, which they are calling the “Energy Tax Prevention Act” would undermine the EPA’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from […]

House Transportation Committee Rejects Obama’s 2012 Budget Request

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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is having its say about the president’s ambitious – and unpaid-for – budget request for transportation. “The [president’s] proposal assumes a ‘placeholder revenue increase’ of $435 billion over a 10-year period but does not identify how to pay for the revenue increase,” says the committee’s “Views and Estimates” document, […]

Poll: Voters From All Walks Support Transportation Improvements, Reform

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Don’t be fooled by the high-pitched rhetoric in Washington. The vast majority of Americans are united, at least when it comes to the topic of transportation. That’s the conclusion of the Rockefeller Foundation poll released earlier this week. A bipartisan polling team questioned 1,000 American voters nationwide about their attitudes toward the nation’s roads, bridges […]

Obama Proposes Infra Bank, Livability Grants, Doubling Transit Funds

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The White House has released a fact sheet on the transportation provisions in the President’s budget. [PDF] Here are the highlights, straight from the document: Provides $13.4 billion in discretionary resources in 2012, a $1.3 billion decrease from 2010 levels. (This figure excludes $109 billion in obligation limitations for the surface transportation plan. Including surface […]