We’ll be live blogging some of the highlights of the markup going on today by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Refresh the page throughout the day to stay up to speed. And you can also follow us on Twitter. If you want to watch the live stream of the markup, you can watch that [...]

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leadership released a 22-page outline of their upcoming transportation reauthorization proposal yesterday. (Read our statement here.) The outline indicates that the full bill cuts overall transportation funding by 35 percent and removes the requirement to spend a small fraction on bike and pedestrian facilities. The current balance between highway [...]

Here’s a downloadable PDF version of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s just-released summary of their forthcoming transportation bill. We’ll have some analysis and a statement later today. Click here or on image to download

Rep. Mica and his fellow leaders on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will roll out details on their proposed six-year transportation reauthorization at a press conference in just a few minutes at 11 a.m. Eastern. You should be able to find an online stream at http://transportation.house.gov. We’re checking to see if C-SPAN might be [...]

T4 America co-chair John Robert Smith encouraged members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to enact “bold new policy” to repair our nation’s crumbling infrastructure, increase transit options and demand accountability for results, in testimony delivered on Capitol Hill today. Smith, the former 16-year Republican mayor of Meridian, Mississippi and President and CEO of [...]

Full Transportation Bill Outline (.PDF) For those readers brave enough to wade into 90 pages of policy detail, we know have Rep. James Oberstar’s full outline proposal for the next transportation bill. At a press conference to discuss the release this afternoon, John Mica, the Republican Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said [...]