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...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
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. The best thing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
House Republicans today once again showed that they are not only ideologically wrong-headed but legislatively inept. The House finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill, but not the fatally flawed five-year plan that House Speaker John Boehner had...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
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. The right...
