The Obama administration sent a four-year, $302 billion transportation plan to Congress on Tuesday to jump-start a national debate on how to repair and replace the nation's aging infrastructure.

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A recent change in federal law would force states to tap the tax returns of contractors and other companies to recover any money owed to an unemployment benefits system.

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Stressing the importance of having job-training programs that work, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a "soup to nuts" review of federal workforce training initiatives and pledged to copy the most successful ones.

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President Barack Obama plans to spend the night in Milwaukee on Wednesday and then tour General Electric's gas engine facility in Waukesha on Thursday.

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Big multimillion-dollar water projects, once a favorite target of good-government reformers who made them a poster child of political pork, are back in vogue as a rare force of concord in a dysfunctional Congress.

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Saying the government should lead by example, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the federal government to nearly triple its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020.

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Dwarfed by cranes and cargo containers at the Port of New Orleans, President Barack Obama called for more government spending on major infrastructure projects as an economic recipe that could have ripple effects on employment.

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Town of Campbell officials have riled some western Wisconsin residents by banning signs on a pedestrian overpass over Interstate 90.

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President Barack Obama laid the blame for the government's partial shutdown at the feet of House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday, escalating a confrontation that is running the risk of a potentially damaging clash over the nation's borrowing authority.

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Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would mean a dim future for coal.

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