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Article: Woe to GOP for Transportation Stalemate, Kaine Says
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- The Washington Post
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- July 11, 2008
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) took aim at Virginia Republicans on
Thursday over the General Assembly's failure to agree on a
transportation funding plan and predicted that the GOP would pay a
heavy price in the 2009 state elections.
The second special legislative session on transportation in two
years ended early Thursday without a bill to improve the state's
highways or mass transit systems. The Republican-controlled House
refused to pass a statewide tax increase to pay for transportation
improvements. And the Democratic-controlled Senate responded by
killing House transportation bills that didn't involve taxes,
arguing that they would do little to relieve Northern Virginia's
traffic problems.
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