Why is US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood opposing the transportation reauthorization bill?
The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The Secretary is a member of the President’s Cabinet. Ray LaHood is the current Secretary of Transportation. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Transportation http://www.dot.gov/ost/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
Updated December 22, 2008 President-Elect Obama Names Congressman Ray LaHood (R-IL, 18th) USDOT Secretary Transportation Secretary LaHood leads the way on sustainability Kaid Benfield Director, Smart Growth Program, Washington, DC This is not your father’s DOT. A couple of days ago I wrote a post on the remarkable (and now three-agency) partnership on sustainable communities within the Obama administration. Secretaries Ray LaHood (DOT) and Shaun Donovan (HUD) and Administrator Lisa Jackson (EPA) are placing the sustainability agenda front and center, committing the federal government to join forces with states and localities in making the places where we live, work, shop and play more livable, affordable, connected and environmentally friendly. All three deserve our praise; so do their staffs who have been working on this; and so, for that matter, does their boss in the White House. Today I want to give a particular shout out to Department of Transportation Secretary LaHood, a few mont
The proposal is set to be released one day after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood asked the committee to postpone its plans to overhaul the nation’s transportation system by 18 months, and to instead extend the current authorization in an effort to prop up the cash-strapped Highway Trust Fund, which is set to run aground by August. Oberstar’s white paper, dated today, lays out the case against a temporary extension, something he has said he will attempt to block in an effort to force lawmakers to get down to the business of reauthorization. Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/18/18greenwire-oberstar-mica-plan-500b-6-year-transportation-69045.
