- 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)
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Today’s Headlines
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