Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about House of Representatives

House GOP Wastes Time With Bogus Gas Tax Debate

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 7, 2012 | No Comments

If you’ve been following the ongoing transportation bill saga, then you know there’s a fair amount of gamesmanship going on in Congress right now — lots of political posturing, little progress on substantive policy. Here’s a great new example of what the House GOP has been up to instead of passing a transportation bill: Representative […]

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Boxer and Inhofe Make Their Offer to the House, Try to Avoid 10th Extension

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 5, 2012 | No Comments

The time-and-venue change for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s press conference earlier today was apparently due to the fact that she was taking care of critical business: hand-delivering the Senate’s latest offer to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Chair John Mica (R-FL) wasn’t there to personally receive the document, which EPW Ranking Member James Inhofe joined […]

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Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Support Local Control of Bike-Ped Funds

By Ben Goldman | May 31, 2012 | No Comments

A coalition of 70 organizations, including the US Conference of Mayors, American Heart Association, and the National PTA, have signed on to a letter from AmericaBikes urging Congress to preserve the Cardin-Cochran amendment — a provision in the Senate transportation bill that allows local agencies to directly access funds street safety projects. The letter is addressed to […]

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Tea Party Republicans Take Aim at Bike-Ped Funding in Conference

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2012 | No Comments

Although Senate Republicans had hoped the carefully crafted compromise over the Transportation Enhancements program would stand, some House members are stating their insistence that the program be stripped out entirely in conference. Transportation Enhancements is the primary source of funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects. It comprises less than two percent of total federal transportation […]

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Seven Questions About the Transportation Bill Conference

By Tanya Snyder | May 8, 2012 | No Comments

The first meeting of the transportation bill conference committee started today at 3:00. (To familiarize yourself with the participants, see Ben’s reports on the House and Senate conferees.) We’re live-blogging it, beginning to end, on Streetsblog Capitol Hill. It’s unusual for conferences to meet in public, and leaders have indicated that this won’t be the […]

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House GOP Tries to Horse-Trade Senate Bill For Keystone Pipeline

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 13, 2012 | No Comments

In another desperate attempt to push forward their fossil fuel agenda, House Republicans have indicated that even though they’ve been incapable of passing a transportation bill, they’re willing to go to conference committee and pass the Senate bill. All the Senate Democrats have to do in return is approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Our sources […]

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