Article: Woe to GOP for Transportation Stalemate, Kaine Says

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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