Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Funding

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

WSJ: Mica Says Transit Funding Will Stay “About the Same”

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 22, 2011 | No Comments

Update: Transportation Committee staff says Mica has confirmed what he meant: “He was referring to the share. Keep in mind that we have no numbers or details for a bill yet — the hearing process is not yet finished and we have not drafted a bill. He was simply speculating at this point.” Using the […]

House Transportation Committee Rejects Obama’s 2012 Budget Request

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 22, 2011 | No Comments

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is having its say about the president’s ambitious – and unpaid-for – budget request for transportation. “The [president’s] proposal assumes a ‘placeholder revenue increase’ of $435 billion over a 10-year period but does not identify how to pay for the revenue increase,” says the committee’s “Views and Estimates” document, […]

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