Today’s Headlines
McConnell Dashes All Hopes: No Long-Term Bill, No Gas Tax Hike, Hello Extension (WaPo, Politico) Obama’s “Patience Is Running Low,” Could Veto Extension (The Hill) “We Made This Easy For You; Just Pass the Bill We Wrote,” Foxx Tells Congress (The Hill) Top Finance Committee Members Introduce Plan to Fund Transpo With Corporate Tax Reform … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:49 AM EDT on July 9, 2015
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- McConnell Dashes All Hopes: No Long-Term Bill, No Gas Tax Hike, Hello Extension (WaPo, Politico)
- Obama’s “Patience Is Running Low,” Could Veto Extension (The Hill)
- “We Made This Easy For You; Just Pass the Bill We Wrote,” Foxx Tells Congress (The Hill)
- Top Finance Committee Members Introduce Plan to Fund Transpo With Corporate Tax Reform (WaPo)
- Mid City San Diego Gets First Freeway-Level Transit Stations (NBC)
- Living in a Compact City Won’t Make You Thin If You Keep Driving to Work (PLOS)
- The Idaho Stop Now Wants to Be Called the Paris Stop (BBC)
- Ford Focuses on the (Car-Lite) Future of Mobility, Expands Silicon Valley Presence (Wards Auto)
- Well, That’s One Way to Protest a Highway [NSFW] (NLTimes)
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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