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Republicans Fiddling While Bridges Crumble, Part II: The 90-Day Cop-Out
The House on Thursday voted to continue surface transportation programs for an additional 90 days, punting to shortly before the Democratic and Republican conventions the question of what our longer-term transportation policy should look like.
AP, WaPo Peddle Right-Wing Anti-Transportation Framing As 'News'
As the Senate prepares to take up a well-intentioned, if sorely inadequate, transportation funding bill this week, the Associated Press distributed a "news" story Monday that offered little "news" but much in the way of ideological framing for the opponents of fede
House Republicans Fiddle While Bridges Crumble
As of Wednesday afternoon, House Republicans were at an impasse within their own caucus on how to move forward on a surface transportation funding bill.
Conservatives On Transportation: Throw America Into Reverse
Back in 2010, one of President Obama's stump-speech lines has him trying to put the economy in "D" to drive it out of the ditch it had fallen into, while Republican obstructionists keep trying to pull the stick shift back into "R."
Senate Transportation Bill: A Tank Half Full
The Senate has finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill today, more than 896 days after the last full authorization bill expired.
Congress' Last Chance To Get In Gear On A Transportation Jobs Bill
A Senate-House conference committee is scheduled to meet today to hammer out differences between the two chambers on what is likely to be the most substantive jobs bill the Congress could pass this year: a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
House Transportation Bill: Huge Republican FAIL
House Republicans today once again showed that they are not only ideologically wrong-headed but legislatively inept.
1 Million Jobs Or 2 Million Layoffs? It's Decision Day On Transportation Bill
There are reports that Congress is at last about to reach a deal on a transportation bill, exactly 1,001 days after the expiration of the last transportation reauthorization bill that Congress passed. What's still unclear is what kind of deal this will be.
On Wednesday, Fight For A Fair Transportation Bill
It's about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill.
Cranking Up The Old Scandal Machine
Bleeding heart liberal rag Forbes does some important journalism and investigates the Fast and Furious pseudo scandal. It turns out that the basic facts the wingnuts are presenting --- that the ATF was engaged in a gun-walking sting operation, is false. Well, waddaya know?
