Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about U.S. Senate

Will Senate Republicans Send Back Their Own States’ TIGER Money?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 14, 2011 | No Comments

TIGER grants, announced last year, hang in the balance as the Senate debates the package of House-passed spending cuts. Congress is about to vote on another extension of the current budget, cutting another $2 billion per week. (Up until now, those “cuts” have mostly been budget items from 2010 that the Democrats weren’t going to […]

Cyclists Descend on Capitol Hill, Ask Lawmakers to Preserve Bike Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 11, 2011 | No Comments

Every year, the cyclists that gather in Washington for the National Bike Summit meet with hundreds of Congressional offices to ask for expanded bike funding. This year, they’re just asking lawmakers not to cut it. With an anti-spending mood prevailing inside the Beltway, bicycling advocates are trying to be realistic. “We haven’t forgotten that there’s […]

AASHTO: Government Shutdown Could Cost Transportation Sector $100M/Day

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 28, 2011 | No Comments

If the House, Senate, and President Obama don’t agree on a course of action by the end of this week, the U.S. will be left with no federal budget, and the government will shut down. Transit agencies and construction interests don’t seem alarmed, but the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials estimates that […]

How Hard Will the Senate Fight Back Against House Spending Cuts?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 22, 2011 | No Comments

Members of Congress worked all day Friday, until 4:42 Saturday morning, to finish voting on hundreds of amendments and, finally, the final HR 1 bill to set spending levels for the rest of 2011. In the end, the budget bill they passed included 400 amendments and would cut $61 billion out of everything from Planned […]

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 […]

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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