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Obama Won’t Veto the House’s Extension Even With Senate Just Days From Passing 6-Year Bill (The Hill) Pairing Transpo Funding With Immigration Will Somehow Make It Less Controversial? (Roll Call) Congress At a Loss, Now Considering Raiding Federal Workers’ Retirement (The Hill, WaPo) Dems Say Commerce Committee’s Bill Section Rolls Back Safety (Reuters) Fast Ferries Could Be a New Option For DC’s … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:51 AM EDT on July 16, 2015

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Obama Won’t Veto the House’s Extension Even With Senate Just Days From Passing 6-Year Bill (The Hill)
Pairing Transpo Funding With Immigration Will Somehow Make It Less Controversial? (Roll Call)
Congress At a Loss, Now Considering Raiding Federal Workers’ Retirement (The Hill, WaPo)
Dems Say Commerce Committee’s Bill Section Rolls Back Safety (Reuters)
Fast Ferries Could Be a New Option For DC’s Bridge-and-Tunnel Commuters (WTOP)
9 Percent Fare Hikes For NJ Transit (Patch)
DC Challenged For Ticketing Cars Blocking a Streetcar That Still Isn’t Running (WJLA)
Austin Is Breaking Records For Traffic Fatalities This Year (KEYE)
Tampa Police Accused of Harassing People “Biking While Black” (ABC)
Vermont Seeks to Quadruple Rail Ridership (Int’l Railway Journal)

Tanya Snyder

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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