Monday, May 24, 2004
A Note to Transportation Bill Conferees
Congress has finally appointed a conference committee to deal with the transportation reauthorization bills that have passed the Senate and House. Ron Utt of the Heritage Foundation wants to remind conferees that the bill is mainly a big piece of pork barrel and no longer really about transportation.
It is likely that his note will fall on deaf ears. Participants in the Portland Preserving the American Dream conference will recall that Representative Earl Blumenauer firmly rejected the notion that we should stop subsidizing the automobile. As a member of the House Transportation Committee, he certainly did not want to give up having a say in distributing Congress' largest form of pork barrel.
Congress has finally appointed a conference committee to deal with the transportation reauthorization bills that have passed the Senate and House. Ron Utt of the Heritage Foundation wants to remind conferees that the bill is mainly a big piece of pork barrel and no longer really about transportation.
It is likely that his note will fall on deaf ears. Participants in the Portland Preserving the American Dream conference will recall that Representative Earl Blumenauer firmly rejected the notion that we should stop subsidizing the automobile. As a member of the House Transportation Committee, he certainly did not want to give up having a say in distributing Congress' largest form of pork barrel.
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