Transportation Issues Daily
January 27, 2012 By Larry Ehl
Senator Barbara Boxer, who chairs the primary Senate committee on surface transportation (EPW) announced she has received a letter from over “1000 organizations, businesses, coalitions and other groups from all 50 states “urging quick action on a strong surface transportation bill before the current extension expires.”
Boxer held the news conference to let folks know that the Senate is making strong progress on passing a bill. Her Committee has passed a proposal, and the remaining Senate Committees are scheduled to act in the coming week. We’re the closest we’ve been in two years to passing a bill. Boxer was countering the widely-recounted comments by USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood, from the previous day, that a bill was unlikely to pass this year... FULL ARTICLE
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Fri, January 27, 2012
by John Cox