by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
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. Most House Democrats...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
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 federal...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
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. There is a real possibility that, because of this impasse, federal funding for transportation projects would...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
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." It was a baldly partisan pitch then,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
The Senate has finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill today, more than 896 days after the last full authorization bill expired. But this is legislation that is much like the transportation infrastructure in much of the country today: well behind the...
