Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Paul Ryan

Finally, the Presidential Race Turns to Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

The Obama campaign has fired the opening salvo in a new presidential campaign front: transportation. The campaign released seven radio ads in key swing states, each playing to major concerns of voters in those states. The ad now on the airwaves in Virginia focuses on the differences between the two tickets on infrastructure spending. Here’s […]

GOP Budget Would Cut Transpo to the Bone

By Ben Goldman | Mar 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

Wednesday night, the House Budget Committee narrowly passed — by one vote — the 2013 federal budget proposed by chairman Paul Ryan. It calls for all kinds of spending cuts, casts aside the bargains struck during last year’s budget debacle, and asserts that by 2050, all federal spending outside of entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid) should only equal […]

Mica, GOP Leadership Looking to Raise Transportation Spending Levels in Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2011 | 8 Comments

According to yet another great report from Jeff Davis at Transportation Weekly, House Republican leadership has given House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica permission to seek additional revenues to fund the transportation reauthorization at levels $15 billion higher than initially proposed. One Republican source, quoted in Transportation Weekly, said that given the persistently high unemployment rates, […]

What The Debt Ceiling Vote Means For Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 1, 2011 | No Comments

Yesterday, the House of Representatives took a “symbolic” vote on raising the debt ceiling without any “strings attached” – i.e., the trillion dollars worth of spending cuts the Republicans are insisting on before they’ll agree to raise the debt ceiling. The vote went how it was supposed to go: not a single Republican voted for […]