GOP Plans to Cave on Transportation Spending

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 27th at 12:45 PM  | 

We’ve seen this show before.  Republicans propose grand ideas to cut spending and implement free-market reforms; they speak ebulliently about their new ideas, and …they summarily scuttle them and cave to the Democrats. Earlier this year, Republicans proposed a commendable plan to end the bipartisan pork fest of surface transportation spending.  Instead of continuing the inexorable expansion of transportation spending, House Transportation Committee Chairman John | Read More »

Ray LaHood Does Not Have Blank Check to Grant Waivers for EAS Program

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 19th at 12:42 PM  | 

Earlier this month, Senate Democrats brazenly forced a two-week partial shutdown of the FAA.  They were willing to hold 4,000 employees hostage and forgo millions in revenue from airline tickets, all for the purpose of securing their inveterate pork projects.  Democrats refused to pass the House extension bill because Republicans inserted minor limits on a rural pork program, better known as Essential Air Service (EAS).  | Read More »

Harry Reid Admits He’s a Terrorist Hijacker of FAA Funding

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 2nd at 04:04 PM  | 

Update: Despite admitting that his demands are extreme, Harry Reid refused to approve the stopgap funding measure for the FAA, thereby ensuring a partial shutdown until September. Throughout the debt ceiling fight, Harry Reid purported to be the only true compromiser, while painting the Tea Party as extreme hostage takers.  However, unlike most hostage takers, tea partiers made no demands of government for their own | Read More »

Democrats Threaten FAA Shutdown Over Rural Pork

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 07:58 AM  | 

Amidst the circus surrounding the looming debt ceiling deadline, there is another deadline that is coming due tonight at midnight; funding for the FAA.  The Democrats in the Senate are obdurately refusing to pass either a short-term or long-term extension of the FAA reauthorization, threatening to furlough 4,000 precious union workers beginning Saturday.  Their rationale?  Saving Harry Reid’s rural pork. Much like highway and surface | Read More »