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8:52 AM EDT on July 23, 2015

    • A Day After Blocking It, Senate Moves to Proceed With Six-Year Transpo Bill (The Hill)
    • Senate Energy Chair Objects to Selling Strategic Oil to Fund Transpo (Alaska Public Media)
    • Other Senators, Including Harry Reid, Uncomfortable With Other Pay-Fors (The Hill, HuffPo)
    • ProPublica and Politico on Congress' Inability to Raise the Gas Tax and Why It's So Embarrassing
    • Another Controversial Funding Source: Money Intended to Fight Blight (Cleveland.com)
    • Uber: 1, New York: 0 (WaPo)
    • Arizona Republican Wonders Why Republicans Are So Clueless About Transit (AZ Central)
    • MD Legislators Who Opposed Gas Tax Hike Sure Seem to Like All the New Roads It's Paying For (Sun)
    • Upon Retirement, AAA Leader Laments That the DC Area Hasn't Expanded More Roads (WTOP)
    • Days After Fare Hikes Take Effect, NJT Riders Face Major Delays (APP)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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