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A national search for a successor to Rear Adm. Allen Worley would ensue, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.

A document received from Lakeview Museum on October, 22, 2009, addressed to the Peoria County Administrator, indicated that only $14,244,543 has been collected out of $73,285,140 pledged to the Museum Project.

As of Sunday, drivers in New York broke the law if they were text messaging at the wheel.

At a meeting today with his outside economic recovery advisers, President Obama emphasized the importance of shoring up the nation's crumbling infrastructure but warned that the mounting federal deficit would require "more creative, new approaches to financing" investment in transit, bridges, and road repairs.

Partisanship is a fact of life in Washington, often slowing down progress on issues from health care to climate change .

EVANSTON, Ill. - The Federal Railroad Administration will award $8 billion in stimulus money to develop high-speed-passenger-rail service to various state applicants this winter, "hopefully in January," Joseph Szabo, administrator of the U.S. railroad oversight agency said following a presentation Monday.

President Obama's administration and federal lawmakers are making it clear that they are serious about reducing distracted driving on the nation's roads.

Originally published November 2, 2009 at 2:15 a.m., updated November 2, 2009 at 2:18 a.m. BOISE, Idaho a ' A streetcar revival in American cities isn't just kicking up sparks from the tracks, they're flying down at city hall, too.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood defended a massive federal stimulus package in a meeting with Monitor editors yesterday, disputing Republican criticism of the program as a failure and a waste of tax dollars.

A BIPARTISAN TEAM.... To hear his conservative detractors tell it, President Obama is a cutthroat partisan, out to destroy those on the other side.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., makes opening remarks Tuesday at the Senate hearing on energy and global warming.

AED Vice President of Government Affairs Christian Klein hosted a teleconference today to update AED members about the Start Us Up USA ! campaign as well as other dimensions of AED's policy agenda.

Top Obama administration officials are looking to make their case at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday for aggressive action to combat climate change, even as Republicans show no sign of softening their dislike of a Democratic bill that would dramatically cut heat-trapping pollution.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold three days of hearings this week on a revised draft of climate change legislation the panel is looking to mark up soon.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood of Peoria received the inaugural National Bipartisan Leadership Award Thursday night from the Institute for Principled Leadership in Public Service at Bradley University.

According to the Peoria County Republican Website , Jim Montelongo, an at-large member of the Peoria City Council, has agreed to run for the GOP nomination for the Illinois House of Representatives in the 92nd District.

President Barack Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top White House officials to undermine conservatives in the media, business and lobbying worlds.

Much earlier in their careers, Governor Pat Quinn and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood began a battle to save the Illinois River from possible extinction.

GALESBURG, Ill. - It's not often that a member of the president's Cabinet visits Galesburg, but when U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood arrives here Tuesday for a luncheon and a number of other events, he'll already know his way around the city.

A little more than a year ago, federal regulators yanked the rug out from under Pennsylvania's plan to raise billions of dollars for its transportation needs in the coming decades by installing toll booths along Interstate 80.