John Mica

TSA Equipment Gathers Dust In Texas Warehouse At $184 Million Cost To Taxpayers, GOP Lawmakers Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Video, Tsa, Darrell Issa, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, John Mica, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Government Waste, Airport Security, TSA Security, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of pieces of security equipment that cost taxpayers an estimated $184 million and were supposed to be installed at airport che...

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GOP vs. GOP Primaries Turn Ugly

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.08.2012

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LAKE MARY, Fla. — Community and business leaders in affluent Seminole County talked about the promise of jobs and economic development from the ...

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Ex-TSA Chief Opposes Privatizing Airport Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Tsa, Video, Terrorism, Private Security Contractors, Privatization, John Mica, John Pistole, Airport Security, TSA Security, Transportation Security Administration, Kip Hawley, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Former Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley said Wednesday that privatizing screening at airports -- a pet cause of a...

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House Republicans Oppose Bill That Would Help Low-Income Moms Stay Home Like Ann Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans emphatically agree with Mitt Romney that stay-at-home moms work just as hard as anybody in the workforce. But when it ...

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GSA Hearings An Attempt To Label Obama 'Big Spender,' GOP Lawmaker Admits

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Operation Fast and Furious, Video, Jim Jordan, Gsa, Doe, Solyndra Investigation, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, John Mica, Obama Administration, Fast and Furious, Gsa Scandal, Solyndra, Doe Loans Program, Steve King, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- After Republican lawmakers sought to tie the White House to the General Services Administration scandal, Rep. John Mica (R) on Tuesday c...

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Darrell Issa Maneuvers To Get First Strike At Embattled Agency

Politico | BURGESS EVERETT | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: John Mica, General Services Administration, Gsa, Rep. Darrell Issa, Darrell Issa, Politics News

Powerful House committee chairmen Darrell Issa and John Mica are in an apparent duel to be the first to grill General Services Administration bureaucr...

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More GSA Spending Uncovered

AP | WILL LESTER | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: John Mica, Gsa Las Vegas, General Services Administration, Video, Gsa, Gsa Las Vegas Conference, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A House Republican whose committee is investigating a lavish conference held by the General Services Administration says a high-ran...

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The Road Forward on Transportation Policy

National Council of La Raza | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Speaker John Boehner, HR 7, Map-21, Nclr, National Council of La Raza, John Mica, Transportation Bill, Transportation, Latino Voices News

While there are still improvements that could be made to the overall bill, NCLR is pleased that the Senate overcame partisan gridlock in order to prevent actual gridlock for millions of Americans.

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Big GOP Donors Get Carveout Stiffing Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.20.2012

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are trying to pass a transportation bill that would strip certain workers of their minimum-wage and overtime protectio...

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With Gas Tax Money Vanishing, Transportation Bills Mum On What Comes Next

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As both chambers of Congress continued to debate dueling surface transportation bills on Wednesday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announ...

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GOP Bill Attacked For Going Back To The 'Dark Ages'

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Video, Transportation Funding, Boehner, John Boehner, John Mica, Obama, Transportation Bill, Ray Lahood, Transportation, Lahood, Politics News

WASHINGTON — After years of procrastination, the White House and Congress have suddenly boosted a long-term plan to improve the nation's roads, ...

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GOP Bill Would Strip Workers Of Overtime, Minimum Wage Protections

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Labor, Minimum Wage, Video, Workers, Railroads, Railways, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, John Mica, Labor Unions, Overtime, George Miller, Ray Lahood, John-Mica-House-Transportation-Committee, Transportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A little-noted provision in the House Republicans' controversial energy and transportation bill would strip several thousand workers wit...

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In The Public Interest : House Transportation Bills Strikes First as Tragedy, Then as Dangerous Farce

Phineas Baxandall | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: House of Representatives, Driving, Mass Transit, Oil Dependency, Budget Cuts, Budget, Vmt, Transportation, Oil-Dependency, U.S. PIRG, Oil Drilling, Subways, Public Transportation, John Mica, US Oil Drilling, Buses, Oil Dependence, Politics News

The agenda for transportation advanced by the House this week flies directly in the face of clear trends in how Americans are choosing to travel.

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House GOP Takes Aim At Safe Routes To School, Mass Transit

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Bike Paths, Tom Petri, Video, Mass Transit, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Safe Routes to Schools, Earl Blumenauer, John Mica, Charlie Rangel, Politics News

Two House committees voted on Thursday and Friday to eliminate federal funding for a program that creates bicycle and pedestrian paths for children go...

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Breath-Test Ignition Device Provision In House Bill Decried By Restaurant Lobby

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- An effort to get more states to mandate breath-test ignition devices in the cars of convicted drunk drivers has kicked off a battle betw...

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House Transportation Committee Rolls Out A Poison Pill Transportation Bill, Sponsored By Drilling

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Infrastructure, John Mica, Video, James Inhofe, Oceana, Keystone XL Pipeline, Ray Lahood, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

House Transportation Chair John Mica introduced Americans to the GOP vision for transportation on Tuesday -- more highways and more toll roads. To pay...

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Battle Brewing Over 'Imploding' Project

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, Nick Rahall, High-Speed Rail, Video, California, Jim Costa, John Mica, High Speed Rail, 112th Congress, Loretta Sanchez, Rail Project, California High Speed Rail, Republicans, Politics News

By KEVIN FREKING, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers expressed doubts Thursday about the viability of California's high-speed rail...

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Traveler Survey Finds TSA on 'Right Track' But Airport Screening Still A Roadblock

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The majority of air travelers think the Transportation Security Administration is moving in the right direction with it's efforts to str...

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John Mica Has No Legal Power Over TSA, But Pushes The Jurisdictional Boundaries

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The powerful chairman of a key congressional committee is expected to release another scathing report on the federal agency that protect...

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John Mica Attacks TSA 'Chat-Downs' As 'Idiotic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House committee that oversees the Transportation Security Administration blasted the agency's recent test of "chat-d...

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House And Senate Leaders Reach Deal To Avert FAA Shutdown

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.09.2011

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WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders have reached a deal that averts a looming shutdown of federal highway and aviation programs, a key GOP law...

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Zero Progress On FAA Funding As Another Potential Shutdown Looms

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.01.2011

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WASHINGTON -- With the authorization for Federal Aviation Administration funding set to expire in two weeks, House and Senate leadership don't appear ...

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But Clean Extension of FAA Funding Still Up In The Air

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hours after President Barack Obama pressed Congress to extend surface transportation funding before it runs out next month, a key House ...

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Deteriorating Transportation Infrastructure Could Cost America $3.1 Trillion

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Corrections, Traffic Congestion, Gas Tax, Asce, John Mica, High Speed Rail, Asce Report, Surface Transportation Bill, Transportation Infrastructure, Politics News

New tires add up. That's the finding of a report issued Wednesday by the American Society for Civil Engineers, which tallies up the cost of our decayi...

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Thousands Of Aviation Workers Still Furloughed

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Nearly 4,000 federal employees remained temporarily out of work for the fourth day in a row on Tuesday, as Congress appeared no closer t...

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