Recent Streetsblog USA posts about John Boehner

House Won’t Take Up Senate Transpo Bill as March 31 Deadline Looms

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

So much for bipartisanship. Even though his efforts to whip his party into passing a five-year transportation bill that attacks transit, biking, and walking have been fruitless, House Speaker John Boehner isn’t about to follow through on his threat to take up the Senate’s two-year bill. That bill passed with 22 GOP ayes (and 22 nays) […]

Don’t Count Out HR 7 Yet: House GOP Could Revive Their Bill This Week

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 12, 2012 | 2 Comments

Last week, when House Speaker John Boehner indicated his willingness to bring up the Senate transportation bill, it seemed like an admission of defeat for the brazenly partisan approach and insanely destructive policies the Republicans have been promoting. But it’s not over yet. Check out the nuances of Boehner’s statement, quoted in The Hill last Thursday: […]

As Yet Another House Proposal Dies In Utero, Boehner Looks to Senate Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 8, 2012 | No Comments

The original six-year House transportation bill had funding levels that were too low, so House leaders axed that and came up with a fairy tale bill in which oil drilling would pay for higher transportation spending levels. Then they decided to kick transit funding out of that bill, which didn’t fly. So they thought about replacing the whole kit […]

House GOP Takes the Plunge, Unveils Transportation and Energy Plan Today

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 17, 2011 | No Comments

UPDATE 12:00: Leaders did not introduce a bill, but outlined their plan in rather vague terms. More to come. At 11:15 this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, House Transportation Chair John Mica, Natural Resources Chair Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) will take the podium to unveil their transportation and energy bill. It’s […]

Coming Soon: Super-Partisan “Oil-For-Infrastructure” Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 4, 2011 | 6 Comments

“In the coming weeks, House Republicans will formally introduce an energy & infrastructure jobs bill, and hope to move the legislation through the House before the end of the year,” House Speaker John Boehner announced yesterday. Back in September, the Speaker let slip that the GOP would like to “link the next highway bill to an […]

Boehner: Let’s Build Highways to Transport Fossil Fuels

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 15, 2011 | 9 Comments

House Speaker John Boehner just gave a talk to the elite Economic Club of Washington. Mixed in with other crazy-talk about taxes being off the table for the super committee (even though they were explicitly on the table when the super committee was formed as part of the debt ceiling agreement) and government regulation being […]

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