Recent Streetsblog SF posts about House of Representatives

House Transpo Bill Spells Trouble for Transit Projects Across America

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 23, 2015 | No Comments

A provision in the House GOP’s new transportation bill threatens to upend how transit agencies fund major capital projects, delaying or killing efforts to expand and maintain rail and bus networks. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act (STRR), released Tuesday and marked up in committee yesterday, would change funding rules for the three federal programs […]

Will the SFMTA Gut Muni Improvements to Prop Up the Central Subway?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 6, 2012 | 11 Comments

The Central Subway’s latest funding troubles with Congress have brought some burning questions to the surface: How far will the SFMTA go to prop up the project, and what will the price be for Muni riders? The U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to an annual appropriations bill last week that would block $850 […]

House Transportation Bill: What’s at Stake for the Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

Reliable transit and safer streets in San Francisco and the Bay Area could be crippled by what U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has called “the worst transportation bill [he’s] ever seen” making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. As Streetsblog Capitol Hill has been reporting, H.R. 7, the federal transportation bill being pushed by House […]

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House Passes Transportation Extension Unanimously

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 13, 2011 | No Comments

Well, that wasn’t so hard. The GOP-led House just approved a six-month extension of the transportation law. After about 45 minutes of debate, the chair called for a voice vote, and no one objected. In this way, a unanimous consent vote might be even easier to pass than a vote under “suspended rules” which require […]

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GOP Leader’s Infra “Compromise” Is Just Another Ploy to Kill Bike/Ped

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2011 | No Comments

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has put forth an idea that major news outlets are calling an “olive branch” to President Obama on infrastructure funding. Is he offering to increase spending levels over the starvation program being proposed by Republicans on the House Transportation Committee? No. Is he proposing to include performance measures, making sure […]

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It’s Official: Congress’s Next Spitting Contest Will Be Over the Gas Tax

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 11, 2011 | No Comments

Since the 112th Congress convened in January, the federal government almost shut down, the government almost defaulted on its debts, and the FAA was temporarily shuttered. It’s the Crisis Congress, thriving on the chaos of catastrophe. Next up: a bruising fight over funding the transportation system. A few weeks ago, Ben Smith at Politico mentioned […]

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