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7:49 AM EDT on October 13, 2009

    • Transportation stimulus payouts neared $1 billion in September (JOC)
    • Boxer says the Senate climate bill could be up for a floor vote in time for the Copenhagen climate talks ... (Reuters)
    • ... but are the negotiations at risk of becoming the failed enterprise that Kyoto was? (Green Grok)
    • White House remaining on edge about job losses -- but will more infrastructure spending be part of the response? (MarketWatch)
    • The Pennsylvania government is re-upping its push to toll I-80 (Philly.com)
    • LaHood visits Detroit's port, talks up the city's potential as a "midwest cruise-ship capital" (Free Press)

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