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Ryan Holeywell

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Ryan Holeywell is the communications manager for the Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute in Houston. He previously worked at Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Holeywell is a former reporter for the Houston Chronicle as well as Governing magazine, where he covered infrastructure and federal policy from 2010 to 2014.

Holeywell earned his bachelor’s degree in political communication from George Washington University and is pursuing a master's degree in public Affairs from the University of Missouri.

To prevent default, the Treasury Department stopped issuing a security that's key to municipal bond issuers.
States are lobbying Washington for permission to cut Medicaid rolls. If that happens, county leaders say, local governments would be left with the bill.
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States spent $131 billion on transportation last year. But most can't say fully whether those investments paid off.
The requirement, considered burdensome by state and local governments, is now slated to take effect in 2013.
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A draft transportation bill calls for federal highway officials to investigate a system based on miles traveled.
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