Pete DeFazio
State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations
AASHTO-ld you so! State DOT association wants the same funding for highway construction — and no provisions to make roads safer.
January 10, 2020
With a Big Crowd and Bipartisan Support, Bike Summit Gets Rolling
The League of American Bicyclists welcomed a record crowd to the 2012 National Bike Summit this morning. Over 800 attendees filled the basement of the Grand Hyatt Metro Center in Washington to hear remarks from federal lawmakers and officials about the state of bike advocacy in America -- so large a crowd that president Andy Clarke said that next year the LAB's sights are set on the much larger Walter E. Washington Convention Center, just two blocks away.
March 21, 2012
Pelosi: Passing a Wall Street Transport Tax Would Require Overseas Buy-in
Any proposal to fund new U.S. infrastructure investment by taxing financial transactions -- such as Rep. Pete DeFazio's (D-OR) bill taxing Wall Street oil speculators -- would require international participation to prevent the trades in question from migrating overseas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said today.
November 19, 2009
DeFazio: Summers, Geithner Oppose Using Bailout Money on Infrastructure
As Streetsblog Capitol Hill readers may know, there is no love lost between lawmakers on the House transportation committee and President Obama's economic advisers.
November 19, 2009
The Wall Street Transportation Tax: Predictably Unpopular On Wall Street
As Congress mulls over solutions to the nation's transportation funding gap, with an eye to passing new infrastructure legislation to reverse the rising unemployment rate, Rep. Pete DeFazio's (D-OR) proposed tax on oil futures is picking up new fans in high places.
November 9, 2009
30 House Dems Back Transportation Tax on Wall Street Oil Speculators
More than a month after he first proposed the idea, Rep. Pete DeFazio (OR) -- along with 29 fellow Democrats -- has introduced legislation that would levy a small tax on oil futures trades in order to close the yawning gap in the federal transportation budget.
August 10, 2009
Team Obama’s Transportation Chain of Command: ‘A Bit Complicated’
It's no secret that key leaders of the House transportation panel and the White House economic team don't get along -- from quips about shovel skills to a stimulus "shouting match," committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) and his top lieutenant, Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-OR), have become two of their party's leading Obama administration skeptics.
July 16, 2009
Leading Liberal Economist Endorses DeFazio’s Wall Street Transpo Tax
Few liberal-leaning economists have a higher profile in Washington than Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His critiques of the Obama administration's Wall Street bailout as a glorified taxpayer subsidy have made Baker a must-read -- as is his latest column for the Guardian.
July 2, 2009
Lawmakers Push For Federal Help With Transit Operating: Read the Letter
The House and Senate are racing to reach agreement on a $90 billion bill to keep the Iraq and Afghanistan wars funded, but the legislation also could mark a pivotal victory for transit.
June 9, 2009