Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]

Meager Highway Funds Table Projects

2008-09-07T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. The trust fund -- a federal account used

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Transportation Dept. Almost Out Of Highway Funds

2008-09-06T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. The trust funda federal

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Transportation Dept. almost out of highway funds

2008-09-06T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday.

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Highway fund bailout now backed by Bush administration

2008-09-06T00:00:00Z

Filled by a per-gallon gas tax, the fund's tank is nearly dry, the Transportation chief says. The president once threatened a veto on a rescue plan; now he urges quick congressional action. With the nation's highway fund running out of money faster than

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Highway trust fund almost out of money

2008-09-06T00:00:00Z

The trust fund -- a federal account used to help pay for highway and bridge projects -- will run about $200 million short of its commitments for the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, Peters said during a conference call with reporters. The shortfall

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Federal highway trust fund nearly empty, official says

2008-09-06T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON — The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. The trust fund -- a federal account used to

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Government says highway trust fund running short; plans to delay payments for road projects

2008-09-06T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON - The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. The trust fund — a federal account used

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Transportation Dept. almost out of funds

2008-09-05T00:00:00Z

The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday.

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Tanker bid delayed at least another week

2008-09-04T00:00:00Z

The competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman for the $35 billion contract to replace the decades-old tankers has turned into an intense and vicious lobbying campaign. The Defense Department will further delay the process of replacing the

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Delays put award of $35B refueling tanker deal at risk

2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to Boeing or Northrop Grumman for Air Force refueling tankers ahead of the next administration. Boeing's recent request for more

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Pentagon looks less likely to meet tanker deadline

2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to The Boeing Co. or Northrop Grumman for Air Force refueling tankers ahead of the next administration. Boeing's recent request

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Delayed tanker deal up against deadline

2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to Boeing or Northrop Grumman for Air Force refueling tankers ahead of the next administration. Boeing's recent request for more

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Tanker bids face likely delay

2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to Boeing or Northrop Grumman for Air Force

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Utah Clinton delegate, 18, to second senator's presidential nomination

2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

Posted: 11:10 AM- Eighteen-year-old Utah delegate Apollo Pazell will second Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination to be president this evening from the stage at the Democratic National Convention. Pazell was picked to tell his story after a small

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Delays Put Award Of Pentagon Tanker Deal At Risk

2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON — - The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to Boeing or Northrop Grumman for Air Force refueling tankers ahead of the next administration. Boeing's recent request for more

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Fundraising Loopholes Allow Lobbyists to 'Honor' Lawmakers at the Conventions

2008-08-26T00:00:00Z

The Democratic and Republican national conventions have long been the targets of big spending by corporations and interest groups looking to grab a piece of the political action. But they are also a rich target of opportunity for elected officials and

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Sen. Murray committed to Obama, eager to hear his plan for country

2008-08-26T00:00:00Z

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said from Denver on Monday that she had high hopes for the Democratic convention, though she would not be attending for the full week. Murray, a Washington state superdelegate who originally pledged her support to Sen. Hillary

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Hanford nuclear reactor is designated national landmark

2008-08-25T00:00:00Z

The B Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River, which produced the plutonium used in the nuclear bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, Japan in World War II, has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The U.S. Interior Dept.

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Murray says Democrats fired up for Obama

2008-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state says Democrats are excited about Barack Obama and willing to put their differences behind them. Murray, a superdelegate at the Democratic convention in Denver, initially backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Murray says Democrats fired up for Obama

2008-08-25T00:00:00Z

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state says Democrats are excited about Barack Obama and willing to put their differences behind them. Murray, a superdelegate at the Democratic convention in Denver, initially backed New York Sen.

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