Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Jerrold Nadler

Going in Circles: Laws to Tame Helicopters Struggle to Take Off

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 12, 2022 | No Comments

Helicopters are like the weather: Everyone complains about them, but no one fixes the problem. Here's our deep dive into how all three branches of government have failed the public.

Mica Drops Amtrak Privatization Plan In Call for Northeast Corridor HSR

By Noah Kazis | Nov 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica backed off his controversial plan to privatize passenger rail on the Northeast Corridor today, announcing at a press conference that reforming Amtrak would suffice. Mica stood with New York Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler at a conference held by the US High Speed Rail Association to announce further […]

Lawmakers Reject House Starvation Levels For Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 6, 2011 | 5 Comments

A small but bipartisan group of lawmakers today sent a letter to the leaders of the House Transportation Committee, urging them to act quickly to pass a bill with adequate funding to meet the country’s needs — “higher than or at least equal to the current funding level.” Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Steven LaTourette (R-OH), […]

Mica and Nadler Duke It Out on the Pages of Politico Over Transpo Funding

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2011 | No Comments

In an op-ed in Politico this morning, House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) calls for getting rid of waste and inefficiencies in the transportation system, shifting more power to the states, and “doing more with less.” The emphasis, of course, being on the word “less.” Mica is still gunning for a bill at existing […]

More on the T&I Stakeholders Meetings: The Advocates Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

Editor’s note: These are the highlights from this week’s hearings on the upcoming transportation bill, where people made the case to Congress for sustainable transportation options. I’ll follow up with the Bad and the Ugly, like those who want to kick transit out of the Highway Trust Fund. The stakeholder hearings in the Transportation and […]

Mica Touts Public-Private Northeast Corridor HSR In Grand Central Hearing

By Noah Kazis | Jan 27, 2011 | 15 Comments

Sitting beneath the famous zodiac mural of Grand Central’s main concourse, with the rumble of commuters and trains in the background, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held its first field hearing of the new session this morning. The topic was the future of high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor. Chairman John Mica led the […]