ProPublica’s Michael Grabell speaks with Brian Lehrer on his new book “Monday Well Spent?” analyzing the stimulus bill. Other insights: the bill created the tea-party, no one had any idea which projects were stimulus projects, and no one noticed when their teachers weren’t fired. And — the bill wasn’t nearly as effective as it could…
There’s Ferris Beuller, Star Wars, an exercising canine and a bungee jumping car. We’ve rounded up the slew of “leaked” car commercials set to run in this Sunday’s Super Bowl. Watch them here.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to to remove funding for transit from the highway trust fund by a 20 to 17 vote. The vote was mostly along party lines, with two Republicans voting against it. In his opening statement, House Ways and Means Committee Chair David Camp (R-MI) said: “The Congressional Budget Office…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City’s Transport Workers Union are back at the bargaining table for the first time in about two weeks. But already, there’s controversy. The New York Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the MTA had caved in to costly union demands. The paper said the agency would give subway…
It’s not just the advocates who hate the new transpo bill. So does Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Republican Congressman from Illinois. “This is the most partisan transportation bill that I have ever seen,” LaHood told Politico. “And it also is the most anti-safety bill I have ever seen. It hollows out our No….
Breaking now from the Senate: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that two of the biggest and most controversial transportation items on Congress’s docket will be up on the Senate floor next week. Reid said the Senate will vote Monday on the final House-Senate agreement authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration. A deal of FAA…
A House committee defeated an attempt to mandate federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure Thursday morning. As TN reported earlier this week, the House wants to eliminate so-called transportation “enhancements” that require states to spend up to 10% of surface transportation money on non-highway projects like bike paths or beautification projects. At least two…
The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood doesn’t think there’s much chance Congress will pass a surface transportation spending bill this year. The bill is on its way to being three years late — it was supposed to be reauthorized in September, 2009. “Given the politics, the number of days that remain, the differences between what the…
The U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, still wants to connect 80 percent of Americans to high speed rail by 2036. That’s the goal that President Barack Obama laid out in last year’s state of the union. But since then, the governors of Florida and Ohio followed Wisconsin’s governor in halting their states’ projects, and congress…
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