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Senate May Drop Key Tax Credit For Biodiesel Industry

(Washington, DC - Todd Zwillich, Transportation Nation)  The nation's truckers aren’t likely to start pumping biodiesel any time soon, by the looks of the United States Senate.  That’s because the...

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Senators to White House with Energy Agenda Unclear

(Washington, DC - Todd Zwillich, Transportation Nation)  Nearly a quarter of the United States Senate is expected at the White House this morning to meet with President Obama on energy and climate...

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Senate Energy Reform Gets Even Smaller

(Todd Zwillich, Transportation Nation) The slimmed-down energy bill we've been forecasting for the Senate floor next week will be even slimmer than expected.The Hill newspaper is quoting Senate...

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Senator Coburn Puts Federal Transit Safety Bill On Hold

(Washington, DC -- David Schultz, WAMU) As a journalist who spends most of his time trying to reach people on the phone, I consider myself to be a connoisseur of hold music - the music played while...

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The Whimper at the End of the Energy Debate

(Washington, DC - Todd Zwillich, Transportation Nation) This is the way the summer ends: Not with a bang, but a whimper.The U.S. Senate has hung up its energy policy ambitions for now, shelving any...

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Senator Reid Relents; FAA Likely To Reopen

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday Democrats are prepared to give in to House Republicans in the two-week old standoff over the Federal Aviation Administration. But other Democrats...

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Shutdown: Dems Walk Back Decision to Relent on FAA

(photo by Tom May/Flickr)UPDATED WITH RAY LAHOOD: A senior Senate Democratic aide now tells Transportation Nation that the deal is off. Democrats will NOT accept the House GOP's version of a bill...

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No-Drama Extensions for FAA, Transpo, on Tap in Congress

Washington, DC -- Even the most rabid prize fighters go to their corners to rest.Just six weeks after an ugly and embarrassing showdown that shuttered the Federal Aviation Administration for several...

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Single Senator Holding Up Transpo Funding Deal

US Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)A deal between Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress to temporarily extend authorizations for both the Federal Aviation Administration and surface transportation...

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Senate Dems Tee Up Infrastructure Jobs Vote

Sherman Minton Bridge, Closed for Repairs Democrats are still working on their election-year portrait of Republicans as the enemies of job creation, and transportation spending is the next color on...

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Senate Highway Bill Set to Kick Off Thursday

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has set in motion the procedure to move to the Senate Highway bill, cueing up its first test vote for Thursday.Senators will vote then on whether to proceed to the...

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Tie-ups Mean No Transportation Votes Likely this Week

Don't waste any time scanning C-SPAN for for congressional transportation votes this week. It's only Wednesday, and already the prospect of any floor action on transportation legislation in Congress...

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Here We Go: Senate Set to Start Highway Bill Votes Thursday

After weeks of behind-the-scenes brinksmanship, the Senate is finally set to begin casting votes on its highway and infrastructure bill Thursday.Republicans and Democrats reached an agreement late...

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Boehner: We'll Work with Senate if GOP Balks on Highway Bill

Speaker John Boehner (House Photo)The Senate's transportation bill bill may be the last game in town.House Republicans leaders have been struggling for weeks to drum up enough support in their own...

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BREAKING: Highway Bill Could Be Headed for a Standoff

People with a stake in the billions of dollars worth of highway funds and gas taxes may have breathed a temporary sigh of relief a few hours ago when Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John...

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Senate Moves to Shake up Transportation Conference Amid Hill Sniping

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (photo by Todd Zwillich)Senate negotiators tried to break an impasse with House Republicans over a surface transportation bill Tuesday,...

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Progress? Transportation Bill Shows a Pulse

(UPDATED WITH SENATOR BOXER'S COMMENTS) The surface transportation bill appears to have been removed from life support and may be on the mend.Positive statements are emanating all over the Capitol...

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