{"id":2364,"date":"2007-03-30T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2007\/03\/30\/senate-takes-a-u-turn-on-transportation-reform-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T12:24:00","slug":"senate-takes-a-u-turn-on-transportation-reform-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/senate-takes-a-u-turn-on-transportation-reform-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate takes a U turn on transportation reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/Rg0Dn2QQo7I\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/Mcq-NKdS4Kw\/s1600-h\/uturn.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/Rg0Dn2QQo7I\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/Mcq-NKdS4Kw\/s200\/uturn.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047694740465689522\" \/><\/a>Thursday afternoon, the senate passed a bill that offers no reform.  Basically, its like &#8220;rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking titanic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I did not vote for this bill, nor any amendments that scaled back the very good bill passed out of the Transportation Committee.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blanki\" href=\"http:\/\/goupstate.com\/article\/20070328\/NEWS\/70328006\/1022\/OPINION\">The Spartanburg goupstate.com gives a good assessment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Senate plan is even worse. It includes the commission appointed by lawmakers and then sets up a committee of lawmakers to oversee that commission. This isn&#8217;t reform. It simply adds another committee to give further cover to whoever will be responsible for the next round of favors and waste at the department.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday afternoon, the senate passed a bill that offers no reform. Basically, its like &#8220;rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking titanic&#8221;. For the record, I did not vote for this bill, nor any amendments that scaled back the very good bill passed out of the Transportation Committee. The Spartanburg goupstate.com gives a good assessment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-C8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}