Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bill Shuster

House GOP Won’t Let Transit-Oriented Development Get Federal TIFIA Loans

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 22, 2015 | 44 Comments

House Republicans introduced a six-year transportation bill this week, and while it’s not the utter disaster that past GOP proposals have been, advocates for smarter federal transportation policy are playing defense. Today, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee marked up the new bill. About 150 amendments were introduced, according to Transportation for America. All but a few […]

4 Things to Know as Transportation Bill Negotiations Heat Up

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 18, 2015 | 10 Comments

Lawmakers in Washington are just beginning their latest attempt to craft the first long-term transportation bill in roughly a decade. The current bill expires in just a few months, on May 31, but in Congress that’s an eternity. While it’s a long way from go time, the contours of the debate are starting to become […]

Shuster “Encouraged” By Obama’s Transportation Funding Announcement

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 27, 2014 | 5 Comments

Bill Shuster is still digesting yesterday’s twin funding proposals from President Obama and Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp, but he’s “encouraged” by what he’s heard. Both proposals rely on corporate tax reform to plug the hole in the highway trust fund. Camp’s proposal would raise about $125 billion; Obama’s, $150 billion. Neither has yet […]

T&I Chair Bill Shuster Complicates Matters With Push for VMT Fee

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 5, 2014 | 26 Comments

All options may be on the table for funding transportation, but Bill Shuster has chosen his. Rep. Shuster, head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, hasn’t been willing to commit to any one proposal for funding transportation until now. And his choice may make things complicated. At a Bloomberg Government event yesterday, Shuster came […]

Brother of T&I Chair Bill Shuster Hired to Lobby (Yes, Lobby) Against Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 27, 2014 | No Comments

In addition to some recent high-profile spins through the revolving door, we now have a new example of ethically questionable influence peddling in Washington: A powerful Congressman’s brother working to bring down a transit line in Maryland. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) wields the gavel of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee — a post his […]

Vitter: Sure, Raise the Gas Tax — Just as Long as You Don’t Raise More Money

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 12, 2013 | 5 Comments

Well here’s a sobering thought: Transit advocates, cyclists and the road lobby have the same talking points these days. All anyone is talking about is how to rescue the Highway Trust Fund from its own fiscal cliff. I attended yesterday’s “Asphalt Fly-In,” the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s first-ever Washington legislative conference. If I went in […]

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