Latest Jones Act Fiasco Costs New Jersey Taxpayers $700,000
A federal law called the Jones Act recently prevented New Jersey officials from treating dangerous roads with salt. Faced with a shortage of salt, state… Read More
The Policy Solution That Could Help You Spend Less Time Stuck in Traffic
States—not Washington—best understand their transportation problems and how to solve them. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R–WI) recently expressed this fact at the 2014… Read More
Obama’s Massive ‘Unified’ Transportation Plan Would Hurt Commuters, Businesses
If you set aside $50,000 dollars for your child’s college education, would you want to be forced to give a large portion of that money… Read More
Obama’s Heavy-Duty Audacity
President Obama grabbed headlines this week for (supposedly) bypassing Congress to advance his global warming agenda. As part of what aides characterize as a “muscular… Read More
Obama Changes His Rhetoric, Not His Liberal Prescriptions
In terms of substantive policy, President Barack Obama’s latest State of the Union Address contained little of interest. The President offered up more of the… Read More
It’s Good to Be the Budget Chairman: Patty Murray’s Omni-BUS Carve-Out
At least one special favor is hiding deep in the omnibus—giving one county’s government-subsidized transit system the advantage over private transportation. Buried on page 1,460… Read More
Phones on Airplanes: FCC Moves to Lift Rules
Something unusual is happening at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At a meeting earlier this afternoon, the commission—led by Obama-appointed chairman Tom Wheeler—voted to review… Read More
Budget Conference Spending Cuts: Start with Amtrak Subsidies
A good place for budget conferees to start cutting federal spending would be at Amtrak, the federally subsidized passenger rail service, with its $72 million… Read More
Changing the Transportation Status Quo: Empowering the States
Senator Mike Lee (R–UT) and Representative Tom Graves (R–GA) have introduced twin bills (S. 1702 and H.R. 3486) called the Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA), which… Read More
Cloakroom: September 29 – October 5
House Cloakroom Analysis: On Saturday, the House did its part to take a government shutdown off the table by passing a bill that funded the… Read More
