Posts tagged Jerry Nadler
-
Breakfast links: No respect in Congress
Conservatives want cuts to transit, DC; Top transportation Democrat a roads guy; Armed robbery on Metro last month; Gray makes DMPED pick & others; News from the Walmart front; Hit and runs in the region; Kenilworth Ave to get sidewalks, bike lanes; Arlington improves traffic signal network; And…. Keep reading…
-
Taxi rules are too confusing, even for Congressmen
Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) got into a dispute with a cab driver over a fare, refused to pay the driver, then left in a different cab. Is this a “ride-and-ditch” scandal, as the City Paper dubbed it? Or was Nadler doing what any of us would do? What happened: Nadler got in a cab at Union Station and went to the Channel Inn, on Water Street in Southwest. He asked the cabbie… Keep reading…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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DeFazio amendment out: T4A reports that the DeFazio amendment was “required to be withdrawn” for parliamentary reasons.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…
-
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…
-
Stepping it up for America
Over in the other Washington, DC, the one that’s a curse on the lips of every politician running on a platform of change, advocacy groups on both sides of the transportation issue are gearing up for a fight that will determine the future shape of our settlement patterns, our future impact on the environment, and the success of our cities and towns: the mega transportation spending… Keep reading…