Today’s Headlines
Check Out Transportation For America‘s Senate Bill Amendment Tracker Harry Reid Proposes Amendments to Senate Bill, Sets Up Next Cloture Vote (Politico) With Gas Tax Money Vanishing, Bills Mum on What Comes Next (HuffPo) Nat’l Employment Law Project’s Anastasia Christman: House Bill Bad for Jobs (Hill) Member of Commission to Replace SAFETEA-LU Weighs in on … Continued
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Ben Goldman
8:56 AM EST on February 16, 2012
- Check Out Transportation For America‘s Senate Bill Amendment Tracker
- Harry Reid Proposes Amendments to Senate Bill, Sets Up Next Cloture Vote (Politico)
- With Gas Tax Money Vanishing, Bills Mum on What Comes Next (HuffPo)
- Nat’l Employment Law Project’s Anastasia Christman: House Bill Bad for Jobs (Hill)
- Member of Commission to Replace SAFETEA-LU Weighs in on Current Bills (Trans. Issues Daily)
- Boxer Laments Senate Bill’s “Ridiculously Unrelated Amendments” (Hill)
- Documents Point to Heartland Institute’s Plan to Undermine Climate Science (Grist)
- Gas Drillers’ New Wild West (Philly Inqy)
- Destined to Fail: Rust Belt Cities Without Rail (RustWire)
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