Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Earmarks

Tales From the Post-Earmark Era: Pork Won’t Hog the Transpo Money

By Tanya Snyder | May 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

We knew it could happen, people! There had to be a better way to distribute federal dollars than Congressional earmarks. The FHWA just announced that 11 programs, funded at a combined $422 million, will be making discretionary grants for innovative projects. “These grants will support projects that work to improve safety, maintain a state of […]

$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2011 | 2 Comments

With multiple versions of two years’ worth of federal budgets flying around, some details are still emerging about what’s in and what’s out. At the end of last week we heard that the FY2011 budget, which has been sent to the president for his signature, includes $100 million for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. According […]

House Members Make Their Case for Transpo Investment (and Earmarks)

By Kathryn Reid Moore | Apr 5, 2011 | 3 Comments

While House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan grabbed headlines with the release of a fiscal plan that would severely constrain the federal transportation program (more on that later), the theme of the day at the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee was the desperate need to invest in infrastructure, as members of Congress provided their own proposals […]

In West Virginia, T&I Committee Kicks Off Field Hearings on Long-term Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

Before crafting their $556 billion transportation proposal, Obama administration officials toured the country, holding a series of listening sessions to hear what people wanted in a long-term transportation bill. Now, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is doing the same thing — but don’t expect committee Republicans to come to the same conclusions as the […]

Obama Admin’s Bold Transpo Plan Leaves Funding Question to Congress

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 14, 2011 | 16 Comments

The president’s six-year transportation plan [PDF], included as part of the administration’s FY2012 budget proposal, weighs in at a hefty $556 billion and lays out several policy reforms that, if enacted, could help the nation transition to a more multi-modal, less oil-dependent transportation system. The plan is a blueprint that Congress can use as a […]

New T&I Rep. Richard Hanna: A Little Bit Upstate NY, A Little Bit Portland

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 27, 2011 | 9 Comments

Rep. Richard Hanna, recently named the vice chair of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, is one of 19 freshmen Republicans on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (Duncan Hunter is the 20th new Republican on the committee, but he’s not a freshman.) He represents New York’s 24th District, which includes Cooperstown, Utica, Norwich and the […]

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