Posts tagged Congress
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Oh, right, the environment
Because this is an important issue, I’m splitting the stimulus section out of the lunch links. See the comments there for previous comments on the stimulus. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Barbaras behaving badly, and other Capitol drama
Bond(age) and Crap(o): Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce two more amendments to strip transit funding from the stimulus and give it to highways. One would eliminate the high-speed rail corridor program entirely. The other, cosponsored by Senators Boxer (yes, Boxer again), Baucus, Cochran, Voinovich, Bayh, Brownback and Crapo, would cut all the money in the “supplementary… Keep reading…
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Boxer to ask for $50 billion more for highways
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is ready to throw in the towel on America’s future. Friends of the Earth has just learned that she and global warming denier James Inhofe (R-OK) will introduce an amendment to add $50 billion in highway-only funding to the Senate’s version of the stimulus. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better commutes for all
Open data stimulates innovation: We’ve pointed out that if WMATA releases schedule data for Google Transit, not only would we then be able to use Google Transit, but software developers could use the data for who knows what creative purpose. Trainlogic used commuter rail schedules from Boston, New York (Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit), Philadelphia and Chicago… Keep reading…
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Nadler transit amendment passes on voice vote
The House just approved Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)‘s amendment to add $3 billion in transit capital funding to the stimulus. They approved it on a voice vote instead of a roll call. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: many ways to be greater
Better architecture through zoning: New York’s Zoning Act of 1919 directly begat the “iconic ziggurat” style prewar skyscrapers. That law required a specific envelope to preserve light and air, and those shapes, it turns out, maximize the buildable square footage. Too bad they later replaced that zoning rule with a basic Floor Area Ratio one that encouraged… Keep reading…
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Nadler amendment heading to the floor
The House Rules committee cleared Rep. Jerry Nadler’s amendment to add $3 billion in transit funding to the stimulus. It’ll proceed to the House floor for an up-or-down vote. According to Streetsblog, the floor vote might happen as early as noon today. Keep reading…
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Voting rights hearing going on now
The House Committee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing right now on the bill to give DC a vote in Congress (and Utah an extra representative at least until the next Census). Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who introduced the stimulus amendment to add transit funding, chairs the committee. Keep reading…
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Morning coffee stimulus: and now there was one (amendment)
DeFazio amendment out: T4A reports that the DeFazio amendment was “required to be withdrawn” for parliamentary reasons. No real word on what those reasons were, but apparently the Rules Committee heard your voices loud and clear. Keep reading…
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DeFazio calls out Summers, introduces transit stimulus amendment
Won’t Larry Summers please just go away? He already laid the groundwork for the current financial crisis and damaged Harvard’s reputation. Now, he’s steering President Obama and the stimulus bill away from transit and other infrastructure spending and toward tax cuts. Keep reading…