Anthony Foxx
Live-Blogging Obama’s Transportation Announcement
3:59 p.m.: Obama says funding for these projects is going to be in jeopardy unless Congress passes a new transportation bill. Doesn't go into details. "God Bless the United States of America," and we're out.
February 26, 2014
Secretary Foxx Pledges to Make Bike/Ped Safety a Priority
Pedestrian crash statistics aren’t just numbers to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. He himself was the victim of one of those crashes once, while out jogging. “I got lucky,” he told a packed room at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board today. “But there are lots of people out there that aren’t so lucky.”
January 15, 2014
Foxx: “We’ve Got to Look at Transportation in a Multimodal Fashion”
Tomorrow marks the end of Anthony Foxx’s first month as the U.S. secretary of transportation. Today he met with reporters who have been eager for an on-the-record meeting with him.
August 1, 2013
At First Hearing, Foxx Defends Projects That Advance the “Public Good”
Should the nation’s largest infrastructure loan program finance projects that make the transportation system more productive and efficient? Hell no, says Senator David Vitter, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Hundreds of millions of dollars should be available to any old project that comes along, as long as it has a good shot at repaying the loan.
July 25, 2013
Anthony Foxx Takes Office As U.S. Transportation Secretary
Anthony Foxx, who resigned yesterday as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sworn in today at 11 a.m. as the new U.S. secretary of transportation. The Department of Transportation sent the following information in a press release after the ceremony:
July 2, 2013
Foxx’s Responses on Bike Questions: Vaguely Promising, But Mostly Vague
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx was unanimously confirmed yesterday by the full Senate to become the new chief of U.S. DOT. He’ll be sworn in soon, probably next week.
June 28, 2013
Anthony Foxx Confirmed Unanimously as U.S. Secretary of Transportation
After a remarkably smooth and uncontentious process, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has just been confirmed by the full Senate as the 17th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Not a single senator voted against -- or even abstained from -- his confirmation.
June 27, 2013
Foxx Rocks His Confirmation Hearing, Reveals Some Initial Priorities
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx's Senate hearing was, by all accounts, the one "oasis of calm" on an otherwise stormy Capitol Hill yesterday. There were no sharp exchanges, no tense moments, not even any particularly tough questions. Two weeks from today, we'll probably be calling him "Mister Secretary."
May 23, 2013
Live-blogging Anthony Foxx’s Senate Confirmation Hearing for DOT Secretary
4:29: Hearing adjourned. Rockefeller: "I adjourn this hearing on the supposition that you will ride the fast rail right into the secretaryship."
May 22, 2013