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Obama Takes Another Swing at $50 Billion in Infrastructure Spending

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 4, 2012 | 4 Comments

President Obama is pressing for infrastructure investment again as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. The president kicked off talks calling for an end to the debt ceiling, the extension of middle-class tax cuts, and $50 billion in infrastructure spending — a proposal that first arose last year as part of his ultimately unsuccessful American […]

Not a Word About Transit in Obama Jobs Plan

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 24, 2012 | 13 Comments

President Obama released a blueprint for his second term yesterday, a 20-page booklet focused on job creation [PDF]. Let’s be clear: This came from his campaign machine, not the White House. In the booklet, called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan For Jobs and Middle-Class Security,” Obama touts his success at keeping the American auto […]

What Went Unsaid at Last Night’s Debate

By Ben Fried | Oct 17, 2012 | No Comments

At last night’s presidential debate in Nassau County, the best opening for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to talk about transportation policy came when undecided voter Phillip Tricolla asked the following question of the President: QUESTION: Your energy secretary, Steven Chu, has now been on record three times stating it’s not policy of his department […]

Scandalous Video: Obama Talks Sense About Road Building

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 3, 2012 | 5 Comments

You all excited to watch the presidential debate tonight? Here’s a glimpse back to 2007, when the old Barack Obama was getting us all hyped up on a sugar rush of hope and change. Check out this video, care of the conservative Daily Caller, which is making a lot of hay about some racially-charged remarks Obama […]

Mitt Romney’s Other Running Mate: The Fossil Fuel Industry

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 14, 2012 | No Comments

Last month, Mitt Romney held a $50,000 a plate lunch with major donors in Houston. What does a $50,000 lunch buy you besides steak and shrimp? Well, according to a new report from the New York Times, it’ll buy you the presidential contender’s ear. And a lot of folks from the energy industry are eager […]

Finally, the Presidential Race Turns to Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

The Obama campaign has fired the opening salvo in a new presidential campaign front: transportation. The campaign released seven radio ads in key swing states, each playing to major concerns of voters in those states. The ad now on the airwaves in Virginia focuses on the differences between the two tickets on infrastructure spending. Here’s […]

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