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Reid: I Don’t Think We’ll Need an Extension (Reuters, The Hill) Pelosi: Holder Contempt Vote Is a Diversion From the Transportation Bill (The Hill) TIGER Grants Announced: Houston, Raleigh, Tampa Among the Winners An Underutilized Pot of Bike/Ped Safety Funds: HSIP (Bike League) How Will Automatic Budget Cuts, Triggered By Failed Debt Talks, Affect Domestic Programs? (WaPo) Will NEPA Spell … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:39 AM EDT on June 22, 2012

Reid: I Don’t Think We’ll Need an Extension (Reuters, The Hill)
Pelosi: Holder Contempt Vote Is a Diversion From the Transportation Bill (The Hill)
TIGER Grants Announced: Houston, Raleigh, Tampa Among the Winners
An Underutilized Pot of Bike/Ped Safety Funds: HSIP (Bike League)
How Will Automatic Budget Cuts, Triggered By Failed Debt Talks, Affect Domestic Programs? (WaPo)
Will NEPA Spell the End For California HSR? (Examiner)
Traffic Noise Might Give You a Heart Attack (Atlantic Cities)
“If You Live in Suburbia, You’re Much More Likely to Die in a Pool of Blood” (Lund Report)
iPavement: Will Staring At Your Phone Help You Engage With Your Surroundings? (Next American City)

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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