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Federal Transportation Bill

March 2010
Thu 18: Inhofe Questions Transit and Bike-Ped Investments in House Transport Bill 0
Fri 12: Mr. Villaraigosa Goes to Washington to Pitch 30 in 10 0
Thu 4: House Passes Jobs Bill with Changes, Prompting New Senate Vote 0
Thu 4: Senate Starts Work on New Transport Bill, With House Version as a Guide 0
Wed 3: Bunning Throws in the Towel, Congress Restores Transport Funding 0
Tue 2: Transportation Filibuster Update: Bunning Won’t Yield to Fellow GOPer 0
Mon 1: Federal Transportation Law Expired Over the Weekend: What’s Next? 1
February 2010
Fri 26: Deja Vu Again: One-Man Senate Filibuster Imperils Federal Transport Law 0
Tue 23: Republican Trades Jobs Vote Bill for Promised Transportation Reauthorization Vote Later This Year 0
Thu 11: Bipartisan Senate Jobs Bill Has Highway Trust Fund Rescue But No TIGER 0
Mon 8: A Vow to ‘Bring Republicans to the Table’ for a New Transport Bill 0
January 2010
Thu 21: More Proof That L.A. Isn't Getting Its Fair Share of Stimulus and Other Federal Funds 3
Wed 20: Dodd and DeLauro Vow to Get Infrastructure Bank Done This Year 0
Mon 11: Obama Administration Working on Its Own Six-Year Transportation Bill 1
December 2009
Tue 15: House Jobs Bill Mimics the Stimulus: $27.5B for Roads, $8.4B for Transit 0
Mon 14: Transport Bill Earmark to Help Road Project in Palin’s Hometown 0
Mon 7: Rendell: National Infrastructure Bank Could Move as Part of New Jobs Bill 0
Thu 3: Rendell & Lawmakers Aligning on 2-Year, Treasury-Funded Transport Bill 1
Tue 1: The Missed Opportunity For an Urban Stimulus: Mayors ‘Were Ignored’ 0
November 2009
Tue 24: DeFazio, Perlmutter Drafting New Version of Wall Street Transport Tax 1
Thu 19: ‘This Needs Attention’: Senators Seek Shot in the Arm on Transportation 0
Wed 18: Bipartisan Support Builds for Six-Month Extension of Current Transpo Law 0
Tue 17: Introducing the Samuelson Gas Tax Increase: A Penny Every Month 2
Tue 17: Dems, AFL-CIO Step Up Push for Infrastructure Spending as Job Creator 0
Tue 10: The Wall Street Transportation Tax: Predictably Unpopular On Wall Street 1
Fri 6: At CNU, Representative of Texas Legislature says “No Road Pays for Itself” 4
Fri 6: ‘The Concrete is Cracking’: Front-Loaded New Transport Bill Gains Steam 0
Tue 3: Buffett’s Bet on Burlington: What Does it Mean for Transport and Energy? 2
October 2009
Wed 28: Transportation Policy Becomes the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest 0
Tue 27: Transport Policy Update: Senate to Pass 6-Month Extension This Week 0
Fri 16: Transport Debate Still Stalled As Oberstar Decries ‘Lack of Political Will’ 0
Tue 13: Obama Ally Breaks With White House on Timing of New Transport Bill 0
Tue 6: Is a Bigger Transportation Bill — This Year — Back on the Table? 0
Mon 5: Congress’ Transport Impasse Hits States — and Not Just Their Road Funds 2
September 2009
Wed 23: House Voting Today on Transport Law Extension — What’s Next? 0
Thu 17: Oberstar to Back 3-Month Delay in Transport Bill As Soon As Next Week 0
Mon 14: Oberstar Stands Firm on Transportation Bill, Gets Industry Backup 1
August 2009
Wed 12: Transport Construction Industry Mobilizes for Oberstar’s Bill 0
Mon 10: 30 Congressmen Propose Oil Futures Tax to Pay for Transportation 3
July 2009
Thu 23: Lawmakers Pitch Transport Funding Ideas, From VMT to Freight Taxes 0
Wed 22: BRU Joins National Effort to Raise Federal Funds for Transit Operations 27
Tue 21: Senate Agrees on $26.8 Billion Highway Trust Fund Rescue 0
Wed 15: Lawmakers Cross Party Lines on Transpo Funding as Debate Rages 1
Thu 9: Did Pelosi Just Side with Oberstar on Transportation Bill? 0
June 2009
Fri 19: House GOPers Propose Filling Trust Fund With Stimulus Money 0
March 2009
Thu 26: Back to the Grid: John Norquist on How to Fix National Transpo Policy 2