Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about U.S. Senate

Stakeholders Beg Conferees to Stop Acting Like Children

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 5, 2012 | No Comments

Sen. Barbara Boxer’s noon press conference started out as a bit of a mess. The Senate press gallery announced it was canceled five minutes before it was due to start. Then three minutes later, the EPW committee sent out a notice that the event had changed locations and would start 20 minutes later. Needless to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Federal Transpo Policy Entering New Era, Say NYC Officials. Now What?

By Noah Kazis | Apr 5, 2012 | 7 Comments

It’s a new era for federal transportation policy, say the top New York City Department of Transportation officials tracking action on Capitol Hill. We just don’t know what kind of era it’s going to be. “If this was 1996 or 1985 it would be pretty clear where we would go with federal transportation policy, with […]

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