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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