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House Ways and Means Committee joins the Senate in shutting the door on Rep. Jim Oberstar’s (D-MN) push for a new transportation bill (The Hill) The field-testing of a future alternative to the gas tax kicks into high gear (AP) Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) calls for a second stimulus that’s targeted to infrastructure … … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:47 AM EDT on July 9, 2009

House Ways and Means Committee joins the Senate in shutting the door on Rep. Jim Oberstar’s (D-MN) push for a new transportation bill (The Hill)
The field-testing of a future alternative to the gas tax kicks into high gear (AP)
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) calls for a second stimulus that’s targeted to infrastructure … (The Hill)
… as a new report shows that national infrastructure will drop this year, stimulus cash aside (Land Line)
Transit loses to polluters in the battle for congressional climate subsidies (Washington Independent)
Is more money for nuclear power the trick to coaxing a climate bill through the Senate? (Grist)