Transportation Issues Daily
March 21, 2012 By Larry Ehl
They are the “Four Horsemen of Bipartisanship” according to Gary Hoitsma, editor of the DC-basedWashington Letter on Transportation and Managing Associate at TheCarmen Group. Hoitsma was kind enough enough to share with our readers this section from the current WLT issue:
Most of the credit for passing the MAP-21 bill through the Senate is being attributed to the bipartisanship displayed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and James Inhofe (R-OK), the chairman and ranking members respectively of Environment & Public Works Committee – two of the Senate’s most polarizing figures in almost any other context. But here, they were able to come together in a manner that might not have been predictable at the start of the process. And no doubt they and their staffs labored intensely and worked out numerous compromises, large and small, to resolve a multitude of issues related to the bill over many trying months... FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, March 21, 2012
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