Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about House of Representatives

Flashback: Ronald Reagan Touts Gas Tax Hike, Transit Funding as Job Creators

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 16, 2012 | No Comments

On January 6, 1983, the icon of the modern conservative movement, Ronald Reagan, signed legislation to raise the gas tax for the first time in more than two decades, devoting a portion of the revenue to transit. We’ve been reading about this moment a lot, as the current GOP leadership in the House tries to […]

Blumenauer: Don’t Let American Streets Remain Unsafe Routes to School

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 16, 2012 | No Comments

Yesterday the House debated the GOP leadership’s oil drilling-with-a-side-of-highways bill, which may or may not survive the House floor. A lot of folks are upset about this proposal, which would eliminate dedicated federal funding for transit, biking, and walking, open up some of the country’s environmental treasures to oil drilling and delay infrastructure insolvency for […]

House Speaker John Boehner Will Delay Vote on House Transpo Bill

By Ben Goldman | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

First, John Boehner split his transportation bill into three smaller bills that deal with transportation, oil and gas drilling, and government employee pensions separately. Now, it looks like the transportation component won’t be voted on until after the President’s Day recess, according to Politico: Boehner’s office attributed the decision to two factors: One of the […]

Obama Takes a Stand, Threatens to Veto House Transpo Bill

By Ben Goldman | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

The White House issued a statement yesterday that spelled out President Obama’s opposition to the House transportation bill, also known as H.R. 7. The administration’s statement of policy, which coincided with the House Rules Committee hearing on H.R. 7, takes a stand in defense of transit, safety, and the environment: H.R. 7 does not reflect […]

House Transpo Bill Doesn’t Have the Votes, So Republicans Split It in Three

By Ben Goldman | Feb 14, 2012 | No Comments

With more and more Republicans coming out against provisions of the House transportation bill, the GOP leadership has opted to split their massive bill into three parts to be debated and voted on separately, Politico reports. The thinking, as Larry Ehl writes, is that members will be allowed “to go on record voting ‘yes’ on […]

79 New York City Execs Tell House to Kill Anti-Transit Bill

By Noah Kazis | Feb 13, 2012 | 4 Comments

The hits keep coming against the Republican House of Representatives’ radical transportation bill, especially its unprecedented attack on dedicated transit funding. In New York, the region’s Congress member — of both parties — and editorial boards have now been joined by that most traditional GOP constituency: big business. In a letter sent to the House […]

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