Recent Streetsblog USA posts about John Mica

House GOP Slows Down Its Rush to Introduce Oil-and-Infrastructure Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

Just this morning, Politico was reporting that the House would introduce the legislative text of its transportation proposal on Monday, but just a few short hours ago, House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica gave a speech at the University of Virginia in which he said there would be no movement on the bill until next […]

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 […]

Mica Warns Boxer on Highway Trust Fund; House Plans Hearing on “Drill Bill”

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 15, 2011 | 6 Comments

“I want to congratulate you on your Committee’s approval of the ‘Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” begins House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica’s letter yesterday to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. From there, the letter changes tone: However, I am concerned that the Senate two-year […]

Mica Drops Amtrak Privatization Plan In Call for Northeast Corridor HSR

By Noah Kazis | Nov 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica backed off his controversial plan to privatize passenger rail on the Northeast Corridor today, announcing at a press conference that reforming Amtrak would suffice. Mica stood with New York Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler at a conference held by the US High Speed Rail Association to announce further […]

Why Create an Infrastructure Bank When We Could Just Expand TIFIA?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 28, 2011 | No Comments

There’s been a lot of adulation heaped upon the TIFIA loan program lately. Both houses of Congress are ready to increase funding for the program nine times over, from $100 million to $1 billion a year – despite warnings from outside groups that there may not be enough eligible projects to use up all that […]

Mica Won’t Say Where Transpo Funding Will Come From; LaHood Defends TE

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) said this morning that getting permission from Republican leadership to find more revenues to fund the transportation bill was a “major breakthrough” but still won’t say where the money will come from. Mica told an audience at a Washington Post-sponsored forum on transportation that passing yet another extension […]

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