This was supposed to be the year of the mighty Transportation Reauthorization in Congress, and Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) was supposed to get his chance to write the six-year, $500 billion plan for the nation’s transportation and infrastructure. But the signs are looking dimmer that something will get done. One of them is this piece by Elana Schor on Politico.
Among the choice quotes is “I don’t know why they [the White House] don’t want to move forward” on a new highway bill, Oberstar’s top lieutenant, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), lamented in a recent interview. “Somewhere in the bowels of the White House economic team, they said, ‘Hey, we don’t want to deal with transportation.”
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