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House Reconvenes Today, and Transportation Bills Abound (Politico) Rep. Aaron Schock Says House Vote on 5-Year Highway Bill Could Come Next Month (JournalStar) Bike Companies Expect Boost From Obama’s “Insourcing” Initiative (BikePortland) Iowa Gas Tax Increase Has Bipartisan Support (Muscatine Journal) Pro-Transit Trend in Bipartisanship May Be Spreading to Indiana, Too (IndyStar) LaHood Defends Tax … Continued

By Kathryn Reid Moore

8:56 AM EST on January 17, 2012

House Reconvenes Today, and Transportation Bills Abound (Politico)
Rep. Aaron Schock Says House Vote on 5-Year Highway Bill Could Come Next Month (JournalStar)
Bike Companies Expect Boost From Obama’s “Insourcing” Initiative (BikePortland)
Iowa Gas Tax Increase Has Bipartisan Support (Muscatine Journal)
Pro-Transit Trend in Bipartisanship May Be Spreading to Indiana, Too (IndyStar)
LaHood Defends Tax Credit for Plug-In Electric Vehicles (Autoblog)
New Transportation Funding Strategy in WA “Too Timid” to Be Effective (HeraldNet)
Federal Highway Administrator Supports Tolling Interstate in Arizona (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Transit Agencies Struggle to Accommodate Increasing Girth of American Passengers (NYT)
No Ticket for Driver Who Hit Gene Hackman Riding a Bike in South Florida (Cyclelicious)
Should Public Transit Have to Serve Sprawl? (Calgary OpenFile)

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