Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Senate EPW Committee Unveils 6-Year Bill With No Funding Source (The Hill) How to Pay For the Bill? Not a Gas Tax Hike, Says Rep. Kevin McCarthy (The Hill) Repatriation Plan for Funding Transportation Gains Traction (The Hill) Senate More Generous With Amtrak Than the House (The Hill) Bill Sets the Stage for a Dramatic … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:49 AM EDT on June 24, 2015

Senate EPW Committee Unveils 6-Year Bill With No Funding Source (The Hill)
How to Pay For the Bill? Not a Gas Tax Hike, Says Rep. Kevin McCarthy (The Hill)
Repatriation Plan for Funding Transportation Gains Traction (The Hill)
Senate More Generous With Amtrak Than the House (The Hill)
Bill Sets the Stage for a Dramatic July (WaPo)
These Amendments Could Make the Bill Much Better (T4America)
Brookings: Gas Prices Hardly Have Any Effect on How Much We Drive
EPA: Carbon Emissions Will Cost Billions a Year in Road Maintenance Alone (Mother Jones)
Houston Gets Back to Its Pre-Car Roots (Doggerel)
Autonomous Cars, Transit, and the Sharing Economy (Transport Politic)
Millennials Start Making Babies: Will They Move to the Suburbs? (Family Friendly Cities)

Tanya Snyder

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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