Topic: Jim Oberstar

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is often called the most bipartisan panel in Congress - an example of lawmakers putting aside...
Defeat of powerful incumbents causes concern in some communities losing congressional cloutThere was a tinge of apprehension behind some of the smiles at the ribbon-cutting for the Liberty Lodge. And underneath the updates about a new public swimming pool and potential bus ...

James Oberstar

James Oberstar is a <a href=" Oberstar is rumored to be on Barack Obama 's shortlist of potential Secretary of Transportation candidates for his upcoming presidential cabinet.
A report conducted for the Minnesota Department of Transportation in 2001 claimed: Minnesota Department of Transportation bridge engineer Dan Dorgan said 1,160 of them, 8 percent of the state's bridges, are considered structurally deficient. Oberstar also commented that the Minnesota ...

Crisis Redux for Highway Trust Fund

The article reports on the warning given by U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman James Oberstar that the highway trust fund in Minnesota will face another funding crisis by August 2010 because it cannot provide overnight payments of its 80 ...
Eight months after a dozen or so pro-life House Democrats struck a deal with party leadership to pass President Obama's health care bill about half of the group looks unlikely to survive the election.. They rose to prominence last year when ...
Democrats lose some of their most powerful members as voters express discontentSome of the Democratic Party's heaviest hitters went down in the House on Tuesday, a sign of the breadth and scope of voter discontent with incumbents regardless of their clout ...

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Graphs are presented depicting the weakening of municipal bonds which lead to the postponement of the pricing of $2.6 billion prepaid gas transaction for Tennergy Corp. in the U.S. Excerpt from Article: THURSDAY www.bondbuyer.com REGIONS BRING THE MARKET ...

Special Report: Blue-collar, unemployed and seeing red

FERNDALE, Michigan (Reuters) - Scott Stevenson was only 10 years old when he first heard grown-ups voice the gloomy words that, in retrospect, predicted the disappointing arc his life has taken."I remember them actually telling us that our generation would be the ...
Congress set to act on tougher aviation safety measures in response to 2009 commuter crashCongress is getting ready to pass tough new aviation safety measures that were developed in response to a deadly commuter plane crash in western New York in early ...