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Today’s Headlines

Oberstar is throwing his weight behind a three-month extension of transport law, but the Senate has its own 18-month plan ready, with a $20 billion price tag (CQ) Senate approves $122 billion transportation-housing spending bill, with $10.4 billion for transit (AP) California is banking on winning nearly half the Obama administration’s high-speed rail money (Reuters) … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:48 AM EDT on September 18, 2009

Oberstar is throwing his weight behind a three-month extension of transport law, but the Senate has its own 18-month plan ready, with a $20 billion price tag (CQ)
Senate approves $122 billion transportation-housing spending bill, with $10.4 billion for transit (AP)
California is banking on winning nearly half the Obama administration’s high-speed rail money (Reuters)
Martha Coakley is in the lead in the Massachusetts Senate race … but Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) could draw her into a spirited debate over his strong record on transport reform (Yglesias)
A detailed look at the lack of consensus on transportation that became clear at last week’s University of Virginia infrastructure conference (Greenwire)
EPA in the final throes of regulating carbon emissions without Congress, which continues to delay a climate bill (Greenwire)
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) responds to the New York Times’ water quality series, says this is a job Congress can fix — here’s more details on his solution (NYT)
The feds are spending a heap of money to keep barely used airports in business (USAT)