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Effort to Preserve Bike/Pedestrian Funding Fails In House
A House committee defeated an attempt to mandate federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure Thursday morning.As TN reported earlier this week, the House wants to eliminate so-called...
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BREAKING: Reid Tees Up Big Transpo Week in Senate
Senator Harry ReidBreaking now from the Senate:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that two of the biggest and most controversial transportation items on Congress's docket will be up on the...
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LaHood: Transpo Bill Worst Bill in Decades, Most Partisan Ever
Ray LaHood at a 2011 White House press conference (image taken from White House video of press conference)It's not just the advocates who hate the new transpo bill. So does Transportation Secretary Ray...
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House Votes To Cut Transit Funding Stream, to Howls of Pain
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to to remove funding for transit from the highway trust fund by a 20 to 17 vote. The vote was mostly along party lines, with two Republicans voting against...
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House Bill Could Cut $1.7 Billion in NYC Transit Funds
New York area lawmakers gather at Grand Central TerminalUPDATED WITH HOUSE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE: There's more alarm about last week's House vote to change the way public transportation is funded. A...
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GOP House Works to Undo Reagan Legacy on Transportation
President Ronald Reagan on a whistle stop train tour, 1984There was another moment like ours, not so long ago. The economy was in recession, unemployment was high, our transportation infrastructure was...
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New York Republicans May Defect on Transportation Bill
(photo by: Flickr user: See-ming Lee)Three New York City Republicans are expressing reservations about their party's transportation bill.The legislation would stop funding mass transit through a...
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LaHood Heaps More Criticism on "Lousy" House Transpo Bill
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (US DOT Photo)C'mon, Mr. Secretary, now tell us how you really feel.U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who has already called the House Transportation bill...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Fuel Economy Up, Bipartisan Hatred of House Transpo Bill,...
Top stories on TN: LaHood Heaps More Criticism on “Lousy” House Transpo Bill (Link) President’s Budget: High Speed Rail, Fixing Roads & Bridges, Complete Streets, TIGER Grants (Link) Biodiesel...
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Transpo Bills Set Off on A Long, Bumpy Road
Speaker John Boehner, facing stiff opposition, has trisected the transportation bill in the hopes of getting it passed. (House photo)The early going for two giant surface transportation bills in...
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TN MOVING STORIES: White House Threatens Transpo Bill Veto, NY Seeks Tappan...
Top stories on TN: NY City Council Summons Police on Traffic Crime Investigations (Link) Transpo Bills Set Off on A Long, Bumpy Road (Link) NY MTA Chief Apologizes for Rat Comments (Link) DOT Head Ray...
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Report: Boehner is Delaying Transpo Vote
Under bombardment from transpo activists, the Obama administration, and a good number of members in his own party, House Speaker John Boehner is delaying the vote on the $260 billion transportation...
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Boehner: 'Fundamental Change' Means This Bill Stays in GOP Territory
sThe House GOP's $260 billion transportation and infrastructure bill is facing a revamp, but Speaker John Boehner made it clear Thursday where he's going for more votes. And it's not to...
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House Transpo Bill Stalled In a Frenzy of Fingerpointing
(Reporting by Janet Babin at WNYC, New York, Matthew Peddie at WMFE, Orlando, and Todd Zwillich at the Capitol in Washington, DC)It has devolved to this.House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Ray LaHood Talks Transpo on The Takeaway, Made in...
Top stories on TN: Adele Has It All: 6 Grammys…And a Great Bike (link) Study: Teen Driving Deaths Up After 8 Years of Decline (link) House Transpo Bill Stalled In a Frenzy of Fingerpointing (link)...
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Transit Tax Break Buried in Partisan Debate
(photo: Joe Shlabotnik)Commuters had high hopes that Congress would restore the full federal transit tax benefit, cut late last year, as part of the massive payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits...
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AUDIO: Mica's Constituents in the Dark About HR7
Park Avenue, Winter Park, FloridaListen:(Orlando, Fla -- WMFE) "I'm afraid I have not heard about the bill" one voter says. "It's a blank for me right now," another admits. "I have not a clue," a third...
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Transit Officials Offer New Reason to Oppose HR7: Bond Ratings
(Photo (cc) by Flickr user quinn.anya)Public transit officials are using the congressional recess to regroup in their battle against a Republican-backed House transportation bill. And the new voices...
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TN MOVING STORIES: House To Revamp Transpo Bill, Twin Cities Renames Transit...
Top stories on TN: In the tech sector, bikes are the new cars. (Link) Reports: House GOP considers reversal on transit funding. (Link) A Brooklyn, New York subway station house that was shuttered some...
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New Fears Over Revamped Transportation Bill
(photo by Flickr user: IceNineJon)A federal transportation bill that threatened to cut billions from mass transit budgets around the country has been scrapped. But as lawmakers return from a...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Ray LaHood Says GOP Wants to "Emasculate" Transit, Tappan...
Top stories on TN: New Fears Over Revamped Transportation Bill (link) Mitt and Ann Romney Drive Four Cars (Link) NY Ports Chief Calls Docks Bastions of Discrimination, Vows Action (Link) Federal...
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TN MOVING STORIES: SF's Newest Subway Line Moves Forward; DC's Population Is...
Top stories on TN: NY MTA Board Member: Overnight Shutdowns Too Broad--And More are On the Way (Link) Will High Gas Prices Hurt Obama’s Reelection Chances? (Link) Residents Look at Ways to Bring...
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Tie-ups Mean No Transportation Votes Likely this Week
Don't waste any time scanning C-SPAN for for congressional transportation votes this week. It's only Wednesday, and already the prospect of any floor action on transportation legislation in Congress...
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BREAKING: Boehner Says GOP Panning 18-Month Transpo Bill
UPDATED WITH BOEHNER COMMENTS House Republican leaders have arrived at an 18-month highway bill they hope can replace a much broader five-year bill that faltered earlier this month, according to...
View ArticleReport: Boehner Making Last-Ditch Effort to Rally Republicans on Transpo Bill
The Hill is reporting that House Speaker John Boehner is making one last push to rally Republicans around his $260 billion transportation bill.From the report:Boehner bluntly warned lawmakers that if...
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Boehner: We'll Work with Senate if GOP Balks on Highway Bill
Speaker John Boehner (House Photo)The Senate's transportation bill bill may be the last game in town.House Republicans leaders have been struggling for weeks to drum up enough support in their own...
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Bloomberg Wants To Talk Transit With Cantor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, March 2012 (photo: NYC Mayor's office)Does New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg want money for the 9/11 museum? Apparently, he...
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Senate Moves on Transit Tax Deduction
US Senate (photo by flickr user samuel.bowman)After a few months of reduced tax credits for all the money they spend getting to and from work, commuters may finally be getting a break. The U-S Senate...
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LaHood: America is "One Big Pothole"
L to R at Hoboken Station: US Transpo Secty Ray LaHood, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, Hoboken Councilwoman Elizabeth Mason (Photo: Jim O'Grady / WNYC)(Hoboken, NJ -- WNYC) U.S. Transportation...
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House GOP Opts for Short-Term Transpo Extension
House Republicans have decided to pursue a short-term extension rather than take up the Senate's recently-passed two-year Highway bill, The Hill newspaper reports.The paper quotes House Transportation...
View ArticleBREAKING: Highway Bill Could Be Headed for a Standoff
People with a stake in the billions of dollars worth of highway funds and gas taxes may have breathed a temporary sigh of relief a few hours ago when Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John...
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BREAKING: GOP to Push 3-Month Transpo Bill Extension
House Republicans, still adrift on how to reauthorize national highway funding legislation, will now push a 3-month extension to avoid a shutdown of transportation programs after March 31.The fact the...
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LaHood's Latest Web Video Has Gentler Words on House Transpo Bill
Ray LaHood is keeping up his usual drumbeat issues in his latest web video in his On The Go series.LaHood used a question submitted from Facebook about transportation grant funding to comment on...
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BREAKING: Obama Signs Transpo Bill Extender into Law
This just in from the White House:Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 4281 On Friday, March 30, 2012, the President signed into law:H.R. 4281, the "Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012,"...
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Senate Conferees Named for Transportation Bill
Senators James Inhofe and Barbara Boxer (photo by EPWChairBoxer viaFlickr)Now it can be known -- here's who will be hammering out the details of a Transportation Bill with the House -- should any...
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Obama Hits Congress on Transpo Bill
President Obama speaking at an auto plant earlier this year. (photo: BarackObama.com)President Barack Obama is getting pointed on the transportation bill.Speaking at the AFL-CIO's Building and...
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Shuster: President Will Sign Transpo Bill In the Fall
Congress member Bill Shuster (House photo)Congress member Bill Shuster (R-PA), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, & Hazardous Materials, predicts President Barack Obama will...
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President Obama Signs Transportation Bill (TRANSCRIPT)
U.S. President Barack Obama participates in a bill signing ceremony July 6, 2012 at the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. President Obama signed HR 4348, the transportation and student...
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Mica Gets Transportation Subcommittee Posts
John Mica (photo by Matthew Peddie)Representative John Mica (R-FL) will retain some influence in helping set transportation policy, even though Pennsylvania Congressman Bill Shuster has taken over as...
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