Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Barbara Boxer

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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Antonio Villaraigosa Rebrands L.A.’s Transit Plan as a National Option

By Damien Newton | Feb 25, 2011 | No Comments

Goodbye “30/10” and hello “Fast Forward America.” Congressman John Mica (R-FL) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) brought their road show to Los Angeles earlier this week to get feedback and elicit testimony on how to improve the federal transportation bill. While Boxer was on her “home turf,” it was Mica who sounded like a local, […]

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AFL-CIO and Chamber of Commerce Ask For a Gas Tax Hike; Senators Agree

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 16, 2011 | No Comments

Against all odds, in a time of high unemployment and Republican attacks on spending, momentum may finally be building for a gas tax increase. Business and labor came together to make a rare show of unity today to push for a robust transportation reauthorization with adequate investment for infrastructure. And they spoke out loud and […]

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Barbara Boxer Commends Obama’s Long-term Transpo Plan

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 15, 2011 | No Comments

As Chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, Barbara Boxer may be the single most important voice on the future of Obama administration’s six-year transportation proposal. And yesterday, the California Democrat gave her qualified endorsement to the President’s transformative plan. In a statement to the press, Boxer praised the White House’s […]

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Senate Committee Backs Infrastructure Spending (But Not For Bike Lanes)

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 26, 2011 | No Comments

“We need to take care of this sooner than later,” Sen. Barbara Boxer said this morning in reference to a surface transportation reauthorization. “We can’t keep doing extension after extension.” Photo from Zagasi Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee even has all its members named (that should happen in the next day or […]

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Sen. Boxer: Working With Mica, Inhofe on a Long-Term Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 6, 2011 | No Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer told reporters today that she had an “excellent”, “wonderful” meeting with Rep. John Mica (R-FL), the new chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She confirmed that they’re working on a “longer-term” transportation bill and have come up with many points of agreement. We’ll let you know more details about […]

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