Today’s Headlines
Senate Agrees to House’s 90-Day Extension, Sends It to Obama (Politico) Divided Congress’s Deal on Extension Still Leaves States With Doubts (Stateline) Nancy Pelosi Asks for Divine Intervention on Transpo Bill (Hill) With Extension Begrudgingly Agreed to, What Comes Next? (National Journal) The House Also Passed the Ryan Budget, Which Slashes Transpo (Aviation News) Why … Continued
By
Ben Goldman
8:58 AM EDT on March 30, 2012
- Senate Agrees to House’s 90-Day Extension, Sends It to Obama (Politico)
- Divided Congress’s Deal on Extension Still Leaves States With Doubts (Stateline)
- Nancy Pelosi Asks for Divine Intervention on Transpo Bill (Hill)
- With Extension Begrudgingly Agreed to, What Comes Next? (National Journal)
- The House Also Passed the Ryan Budget, Which Slashes Transpo (Aviation News)
- Why and How We Should Give Parking Lots the Green Treatment (NRDC)
- Cities and Towns Addicted to Big Box Stores (RustWire)
- 265 Acela Passengers Get a Scare When Train Jumps Tracks (WLNE)
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