Author Archives: T4 America - California

This morning, House leadership announced that they will consider a three-month extension, rather than a full authorization bill, before the March 31 expiration of the federal transportation program.  While the Senate successfully – and overwhelmingly – passed a bipartisan authorization … Continue reading →

No, we’re serious! The Senate today voted 74-22 to pass the transportation bill S. 1813, as amended over the past week.  (Need a refresher on key amendments?  The final amendment tracker is right here, with amendments sorted into “transportation related” … Continue reading →

The House is on recess this week but Speaker Boehner (R-OH) and other majority leaders are reportedly pressing hard on their Republican colleagues to support the reintroduction of their failed HR-7 transportation bill.  What that bill would look like is … Continue reading →

Update, 11:00 a.m. Pacific – The cloture vote failed, 52-44.  We’ll provide a more detailed analysis in another post later today. Today, the U.S. Senate is scheduled to take up MAP-21 for a cloture vote.  This is the procedural hurdle, … Continue reading →

Breaking news: The Senate transportation bill now includes the Cardin-Cochran amendment for local control of bicycle and pedestrian funding in the manager’s package. The latest version of MAP-21, filed late yesterday, pulls together the separate committee drafts into one bill … Continue reading →

House leadership floated the idea of a shorter 18-month long transportation bill today but it apparently fell flat and hard. Speaker John Boehner and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica reportedly sought to put the scaled back version in … Continue reading →

Transportation?  That’s so last week. The latest rumors are that the House leadership is going to propose an entirely new bill focused on jobs – that may contain some shorter-term transportation spending – and vote on it next week. The … Continue reading →

Word from CQ Roll Call is that House leaders are backing down on H.R. 7.  A subscription email sent to T4 America staff this afternoon reported that a new House bill will be introduced, with a shorter time-frame: According to … Continue reading →

This morning, a vote before the full Senate to combine all four sections of the transportation bill failed 54-42.  (Recall that the Senate essentially needs 60 votes to pass anything.)  With a few other items on their agenda today, Senators … Continue reading →