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7:48 AM EDT on August 4, 2009

    • GOP Senate leaders starting to embrace a delay in new "cash for clunkers" money ... (WSJ)
    • ... but that may not matter, now that Feinstein and Collins have stopped calling for stronger fuel-efficiency standards (Fox News)
    • Headed into August recess, the climate-change demands pile up for Boxer & Kerry (ClimateWire)
    • Lu Young, namesake of the 2005 "SAFETEA-LU" transportation bill, passes away (ADN.com)
    • Orange County, CA, using stimulus money for highway-widening (Streetsblog LA)

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