Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood looked a little out of his element last week, when he proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax on motorists as an alternative to a higher gas tax on Thursday, only to have it shot down in short order. Transportation Department spokeswoman Lori Irving dismissed More…
Citing insufficient funding for roadways, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax, based on the number of miles a person drives rather than fuel consumption.
In an interview with The Associated Press yesterday, LaHood rejected the possibility of raising the gas tax in the More…
The confirmation hearings for Transportation Secretary-designate Ray LaHood, set to begin today, may have gotten a bit more complicated this morning. The Washington Post reports that as an Illinois GOP congressman, LaHood was a big fan of earmarks — often to the benefit of some of his largest campaign contributors. More…
Ray LaHood, the Illinois Republican congressman slated to become Transportation Secretary, won’t make traffic jams disappear, eliminate lines at airport security or fix that one pothole you always seem to hit on the commute home.
But commuters are not Ray LaHood’s political base. Reporters are, and fortunately for us, More…
Rep. Ray LaHood has a terrible record on the environment. The Illinois Republican, picked by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Dept. of Transportation, voted to expand oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to gut a green-building initiative, to slacken protections of grasslands and wetlands, and to kill More…
So say unnamed GOP sources on Capitol Hill, according to numerous reports. Jonathan Weisman at The Wall Street Journal has a good wrap-up of why the decision, if it’s final, is unexpected:
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