- Senate EPW Committee Releases Six-Year Bill (Summary, Text)
- Anthony Foxx Says EPW Bill Is Too Small (The Hill)
- Off-Topic Chat With Anthony Foxx (WaPo, McClatchy)
- Full Court Press From Business and Labor for Infrastructure Spending This Week (USA Today)
- Everyone Knows the Gas Tax Needs to Be Raised But No One Is Willing to Do It (Slate, Vox)
- These Projects Will Stay Unbuilt Without Federal Transpo Funds (Marin IJ, WABE)
- Lack of Transit Quashes Columbus's Bid to Host GOP Convention (Dispatch)
- Dan Burden, Evelyn Blumenberg Among Today's White House "Champions of Change" Honorees
- California Considers a Per-Mile Tax (KEYT)
- "A New Day" for Atlanta Transit (Saporta Report)
- California High-Speed Rail Report Reveals "Unavoidable" Consequences (Fresno Bee)
- The Suburbs Aren't Dead -- They're the Future (Next City)
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