Transportation for America
January 25, 2012
By Stephen Lee Davis
846 days and counting since our transportation program formally expired; both the House and Senate are finally on the verge of moving a transportation bill. We already wrote that the House could release their draft transportation bill as early as Friday. What about the Senate? They’ve made some progress already, moving 2 of 4 portions of their bill through committee and will be moving fast in the coming weeks.
That need for speed, urged on by a leadership that wants to get a bill to the floor soon, means that Senators will be under tremendous pressure to keep the bill moving along quickly. Already, vested interests are attacking the critical provisions that would set new, 21st-century objectives for our investments, rather than perpetuate a status quo that benefits fewer and fewer Americans.
Those critical provisions were passed in December by the Senate Commerce Committee. The committee approved legislation that would establish national policy objectives and goals for the transportation system... FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, January 25, 2012
by John Cox