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- What Anthony Foxx's Nomination Means for Transportation
- The Charlotte mayor's nomination as DOT secretary is being viewed as an overture to the role of metro areas in transportation planning.
- Categories: FedWatch , Transportation, Infrastructure & Land Use
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- What's the Back-Up Plan for Health Insurance Exchanges?
- Nobody knows for sure, as critical deadlines approach.
- Categories: FedWatch , Health & Human Services
- Just How Screwed is the Highway Trust Fund?
- A new report from the Congressional Budget Office warns that Congress will have to dramatically cut transportation spending or raise the gas tax.
- Categories: FedWatch , Transportation, Infrastructure & Land Use
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- Senate Could Pass Online Sales Tax Bill This Week
- The legislation, which would allow states to collect sales taxes from Internet retailers, now has the White House's backing.
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- Is Raising the Gas Tax Truly Politically Unpalatable?
- It's conventional wisdom in Washington that voters won't support a gas tax hike or a vehicle miles traveled fee. A new study suggests that long-held belief is wrong.
- Categories: FedWatch , Transportation, Infrastructure & Land Use , View , Transportation & Infrastructure
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- Which State, Local Grants Got Cut in Obama's 2014 Budget?
- The president's new budget proposal increases total federal grant funding to states and localities, but some programs are on the chopping block.
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- Obama's Infrastructure Budget is Ambitious But Vague on Funding
- The president's budget calls for ambitious infrastructure investments but -- yet again -- doesn't provide many details on how to pay for it.
- Categories: FedWatch , Aid to States, Cities and Counties , Transportation, Infrastructure & Land Use
- Whatever Happened to the Office of Urban Affairs?
- Created four years ago, the federal office was supposed to engage cities and metro areas in all major policy decisions. Today, the Obama administration has “little to show for its efforts.”
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- The Most Important Moment in the Supreme Court's DOMA Hearing
- When Chief Justice John Roberts implied overturning DOMA could hurt states' rights, it was likely a plea to one of his colleagues.
- Categories: FedWatch , Health & Human Services
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