Today’s Headlines
EPW to Introduce Two-Year Reauthorization Bill in July (JOC, Transpo Issues Daily) U.S. Et Al. to Release 60 Billion Barrels, Less Than One Day’s Supply, of Oil From Reserves (WaPo) Bill to Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving Introduced in Congress (Detroit Free Press) Boehner Wants to Find Trillions in Savings With Tax Hikes “Off the … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:34 AM EDT on June 24, 2011
- EPW to Introduce Two-Year Reauthorization Bill in July (JOC, Transpo Issues Daily)
- U.S. Et Al. to Release 60 Billion Barrels, Less Than One Day’s Supply, of Oil From Reserves (WaPo)
- Bill to Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving Introduced in Congress (Detroit Free Press)
- Boehner Wants to Find Trillions in Savings With Tax Hikes “Off the Table” (WaPo)
- No (Swedish) Government Bailout for Saab (NPR)
- Proposal to Fund I-Bank With Overseas Tax Repatriation is Just Politics (Reuters)
- Bill Ford: Too Many Cars on the Road Threaten Environment, Mobility (Ted)
- Mineta Survey Offers Hints on How to Sell the Public on a Gas Tax Hike (PR Newswire)
- Floridians Spoiling For a Fight Over Sunrail (Transportation Nation)
- Metro Should Expand in the Urban Core, Not the Far-Flung Suburbs (GGW)
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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