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Today’s Headlines

House Democrats on track to approve more transportation spending as part of a December jobs bill, but health care is likely to postpone Senate action until 2010 (NYT) LaHood calls for a national crackdown on texting while driving — but doesn’t pick a side, legislatively speaking (WashPost) Missouri is on the verge of a transport … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:49 AM EST on November 30, 2009

House Democrats on track to approve more transportation spending as part of a December jobs bill, but health care is likely to postpone Senate action until 2010 (NYT)
LaHood calls for a national crackdown on texting while driving — but doesn’t pick a side, legislatively speaking (WashPost)
Missouri is on the verge of a transport funding crisis, but political fears of talking new taxes are putting prospects for a solution even further out of reach (Missourinet)
North Texas hosting LaHood today for its annual transport conference (Star-Telegram)
A Nevada editorial board backs the street retrofitting recommendations in the new pedestrian safety report released by Transportation for America … (LV Sun)
… while the editors of Cleveland’s newspaper call on the feds to step in with transit operating aid for the city (Plain Dealer)
While U.S. high speed rail waits for takeoff, London unveils plans for a new bullet train to Madrid (Gadling)