Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

You Can Open Your Eyes Now: Budget Deal Spares Transpo the Worst

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

It’s Monday morning, and the government is open for business. In a last-minute agreement just an hour before the current budget extension was to expire Friday night, Democrats and Republicans avoided the nuclear option of a government shutdown. They cut $38.5 billion from the 2010 budget; $78.5 billion from President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal. Some […]

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Government Shutdown Would Be a Punch in the Gut to Transit Agencies

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

A powwow between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Obama, and House Speaker John Boehner last night failed to yield a compromise that would put a budget in place before the government shuts down at midnight tonight. The failure of yet another attempt to negotiate makes a government shutdown all but inevitable. Just a month […]

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GOP Budget Would Slash Transpo Spending, Entrench Oil Dependence

By Noah Kazis | Apr 6, 2011 | No Comments

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's plan would slash transportation spending and prioritize highways. Photo: Christian Science Monitor. With the release of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal yesterday, right wing calls for massive cuts to transportation spending are now enshrined in the GOP leadership’s fiscal plan. Ryan singled out transportation as an […]

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More From the House Transpo Hearings: The Advocates Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 1, 2011 | No Comments

Editor’s note: These are the highlights from hearings on the upcoming transportation bill, where people made the case to Congress for sustainable transportation options. I’ll follow up with the Bad and the Ugly (like a whole lineup of people who want to kick transit out of the Highway Trust Fund). This week’s stakeholder hearings in […]

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Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

The “Tom and Rich Show” continued on Capitol Hill yesterday. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka joined up for yet another event to show that business and labor, which don’t agree on anything, agree on a major infusion of federal investment for infrastructure. They weren’t the only strange bedfellows there. […]

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The Week Ahead: Congress Fights About Budget Cuts and Talks Transpo

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 25, 2011 | No Comments

I hope members of Congress had a nice, relaxing recess this week, because it’s about to get crazy on Capitol Hill. The Budget Congress isn’t any closer to consensus on the FY2011 budget than when they adjourned March 18 with a three-week budget extension to avoid a government shutdown while they duke it out over […]

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