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STAA Tuned: Transpo Bill Leaves Funding Question Hanging
We now have in our hands the 775-page Surface Transportation Authorization Act,
which was released yesterday by James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the
House transportation committee. It is, in many ways, a remarkable bill
-- a blueprint for how transportation planning and infrastructure
construction might undergo a significant shift away from the mindsets
that have dominated for the past half-century. There is a lot to like
in the bill.
June 23, 2009
House GOPers Propose Filling Trust Fund With Stimulus Money
As their committee's leaders butted heads
with the Obama administration, a group of Republicans on the House
transportation panel proposed to fill the $7 billion hole in the
nation's highway trust fund with unobligated money from the economic stimulus law.
June 19, 2009
A National Infrastructure Bank By Any Other Name …
The House transportation committee's new $450 billion bill provides for
a national infrastructure bank intended to "maximize the limited
resources available for our surface transportation needs," as the
panel's early outline puts it.
June 19, 2009
Obama’s Highway Chief: Wishy-Washy on Emissions?
Victor Mendez, nominated by the White House to lead the Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA), spent more than an hour this morning
with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- but the most
illuminating moment in the hearing came as the clock was running down.
June 2, 2009