Note: A more detailed Heritage Foundation report on the Oberstar bill will be available shortly. In June, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, introduced a 775-page bill -- the Surface ...
As the United States Senate recently surveyed the wreckage of the economy in search of victims needing government assistance, several stumbled upon a heretofore neglected corner of human misery: the plight of America's very rich families who are ...
In April, President Obama confirmed his commitment to fund a high-speed rail (HSR) program in the United States and extolled the potential benefits of the $8 billion for HSR that Congress included in the stimulus package. That commitment grew by ...
Shortly after taking office President Obama announced his intention to develop federal policies to induce states and local communities to embrace "smart growth" land use strategies that would deter growth, crowd development, and discourage automobile ...
Since early spring, President Barack Obama and his Secretaries of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development have endorsed and promised policies to encourage or require Americans to live in higher-density communities and rely more on public ...
Among the many contentious issues that Congress will confront in the lead up to the 2009 reauthorization of the federal highway program are the inherent inequities in how the program distributes trust fund revenues among the states. Under current law, ...
President Barack Obama's early comments on his opposition to suburban sprawl and his intention to alter the way Americans live and travel took a step closer to reality when he created an interdepartmental initiative on housing and transportation costs.[ ...
The plan's Stability Initiative bestows new and costly benefits on those who took on more debt than they could handle, including credit cards, automobile loans, and mortgages (including refinancings and seconds). Worse, the value of the benefits will ...
Recently, there has been a great deal of discussion about the Senate Republicans' 4 percent housing stimulus and mortgage relief plan (proposed earlier by Chris Mayer and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School). While this plan is correct in ...
As Congress and President Barack Obama move closer to devising a federal fiscal stimulus package, Washington's lobbyists and many of their benefactors in Congress have ramped up efforts to make sure that their clients and preferred constituents get a ...
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