Secretary of Transportation

Top U.S. Official's Son Facing Trial In Egypt

Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Egypt Trial, Egypt Protests, Video, Egypt Ngo, Egypt Revolution, Secretary of Transportation, Egyptian Protests, Americans in Egypt, Sam Lahood, Ray Lahood, World News

Associated Press CAIRO - Egypt on Monday released the names of 19 Americans who face trial over foreign funding of activities of their nonprofit gr...

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Matt Sledge

Detroit Dumps Light Rail Plan For Streetcar

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Detroit Light Rail, Dave Bing, Detroit Mass Transit, Secretary of Transportation, Michigan, Streetcars, Ray Lahood, Detroit Street Car, Gov. Rick Snyder, Detroit News

Detroit's proposed light rail system -- back from the grave more times than a character on As The World Turns -- would be revived as a shorter, 3.4-mi...

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The Traffic of Pay-to-Play Politics

Monica Youn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Budgets, Money, National Infrastructure, Budget, Secretary of Transportation, Clintons, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Budget, Transportation, Infrastructure, Kennedys, Illinois Senate, Bush Administration, John Fritchey, Rod Blagojevich, Transportation Department, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Federal Highway Fund, Illinois, Blagojevich Corruption, Ray Lahood Obama, Transportration Secretary Ray LaHood, Ray Lahood, Ray Lahood Department of Transportation, Politics News
Monica Youn

The Bush Administration's DOT succeeded in knocking a sizeable hole in Illinois' ban on pay-to-play deals that the state Senate had attempted to pass in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal.

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Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Al Gore, White House, Women's Rights, Sweden, George W. Bush, Sex Trade, Asia, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, South Africa, Angola, Kay Hagan, Dan Quayle, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Nancy Pelosi, Racism, Nigeria, Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of the Treasury, African-American Issues, Latin America, Speaker of the House, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Netherlands, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Secretary of Energy, Condolleezza Rice, Secretary of Agriculture, Janet Napolitano, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Claire McCaskill, Secretary of State, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Arizona, Laura Bush, Gay Rights, Vietnam, Slavery, Sexism, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, Bill Clinton, Islam, John McCain, Africa, Belgium, Secretary of Transportation, Homeland Security, Attorney General, North Carolina, Colombia, Cia Director, Cambodia, Secretary of Interior, Death Penalty, Gay Issues, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

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Obama Labor Secretary, Transportation Secretary Announcements

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Administration, Secretary of Transportation, Ray Lahood, Secretary of Labor, Barack Obama, Karen Mills, John Brennan, Oregon, Business News

CHICAGO — Completing his Cabinet a month before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama named officials to oversee transportation, labor, tr...

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Debate -- McCain calls Nuclear Safety Advocates "Extreme Environmentalists"

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Environmental Protection Agency, President Nixon, John McCain, Secretary of Transportation, Epa, Environment, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Cars, Nhtsa, Nevada, Arizona, Mccain/Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Parker

McCain made a gaffe (not as bad as when he called Obama "Senator Government"), which got me thinking and worried me greatly.

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