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My other candidate is a bike

Posted on July 03, 2008

By David RobertsGreat story in CQ this week on bike politics. Did you know that Obama met a few weeks ago with 160 cycling advocates and promised them his support? I didn't. The 600-pound gorilla in transportation politics is the 2009 negotiation of a new highway bill, which according to CQ is already being touted as embodying the greatest overhaul of federal transportation policy since President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act into law half a century ago. It might behoove CQ to add, if Obama wins. Just as McCain's don't pick winners energy policy amounts to pi...

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