Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Barbara Boxer

Boxer and Inhofe Say Transportation Bill Almost Ready, Funding Still TBD

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2015 | 1 Comment

Two leading Washington lawmakers assured reporters Wednesday that a long-term transportation bill is coming, but provided little in the way of details. Senators James Inhofe (R-OK) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, respectively, held a press conference Wednesday featuring a line-up of construction and labor […]

EPW Big Four Announce Plan to Maintain Status Quo for the Next Transpo Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 10, 2014 | 14 Comments

Last year, while the House flailed in partisan misery, the Senate passed a transportation bill 74 to 22. When the bill was signed into law, it was considered one of the few real achievements of a deeply divided Congress. Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer got tremendous credit for enacting legislation three years […]

Boxer Demands Restoration of MAP-21 Funding Levels

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments

The MAP-21 transportation bill was just signed two months ago, and its funding levels, agreed to by a difficult and fragile compromise between warring political parties, are already under attack. In Congress, authorization and budgeting are two different processes, run out of different committees. And right now, House budgeters are looking to shave down the $52.6 billion […]

Politico: Boxer Already Working on the Next Transportation Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 7, 2012 | 1 Comment

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) confirmed she is already working on the next transportation bill — “two months to the day after President Obama signed MAP-21 into law and before the new policies even kick in on Oct. 1,” according to Politico, which broke the story this morning. In an interview with Adam in Charlotte, Boxer said […]

Pressure Mounts to Hold Sen. Boxer to Her Word on Safe Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 25, 2012 | 1 Comment

With conference negotiations occurring in a black box, transportation advocates on all sides are anxiously awaiting word of the final deal. Rumors abound that Democrats have been willing to negotiate away local control over bike/ped funding as a bargaining chip to get other concessions from Republicans. We don’t know if this is true or not, […]

Top 10 Reasons Sen. Boxer Must Keep Her Word on Bike/Ped Programs

By Andy Clarke | Jun 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

This post originally appeared on www.bikeleague.org. The author is the president of the League of American Bicyclists. For the past 20 years, local elected officials have been given rare access to state transportation funds through a handful of programs administered by state Departments of Transportation as grant programs. These also happen to be the primary […]

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