Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about House of Representatives

Transpo Committee Adds Southern Locations to Field Hearing Schedule

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 3, 2011 | No Comments

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has fleshed out the schedule of its nationwide tour to solicit input on transportation issues. The tour is an opportunity for lawmakers to hear what communities around the country would like to see in a new transportation authorization bill. Since we published the first, tentative schedule last week, the […]

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House Transpo Committee Shrinks, Senate EPW Announces New Members

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 28, 2011 | No Comments

The committees with jurisdiction over transportation are shrinking. In the Senate, committee membership is only going from 21 to 20. But the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is experiencing a much more significant belt-tightening, shrinking from a committee of 75 to just 59. Of those 59, 33 are Republicans and 26 are Democrats. Congressional staff […]

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New T&I Rep. Richard Hanna: a Little Bit Upstate NY, a Little Bit Portland

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 28, 2011 | No Comments

Rep. Richard Hanna is one of 19 freshmen Republicans on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. (Duncan Hunter is the 20th new Republican on the committee, but he’s not a freshman.) He represents New York’s 24th District, which includes Cooperstown, Utica, Norwich and the Finger Lakes. He’s a licensed pilot, an NRA member, and the founder […]

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Mica Touts Public-Private Northeast Corridor HSR In Grand Central Hearing

By Noah Kazis | Jan 27, 2011 | No Comments

Sitting beneath the famous zodiac mural of Grand Central’s main concourse, with the rumble of commuters and trains in the background, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held its first field hearing of the new session this morning. The topic was the future of high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor. Chairman John Mica led the […]

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CA Rep. Hunter: Roads Constitutionally Mandated, Transit Must Pay for Itself

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 27, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog Capitol Hill caught up with Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) yesterday after the T&I Committee meeting wrapped up. He’s the only new Republican on the committee who’s not also a new member of Congress. He followed his father, also named Duncan Hunter, into the seat. Hunter is on the Republican Study Committee that recently pushed […]

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House Transpo Committee Promises Bipartisanship, to Tackle Aviation First

By Noah Kazis | Jan 26, 2011 | No Comments

Ranking Member Nick Rahall presents Chairman John Mica with a new gavel to run the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Meet the new House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The committee’s meeting this morning, the first of the 112th Congress, included twenty new Republican faces, 19 of whom are freshman representatives. The mostly administrative agenda didn’t offer […]

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