D.O.T. withholding Cash For Clunkers info; Senate warming to more funding

Another day, another bunch of news items about Cash For Clunkers (a.k.a. C.A.R.S.). With Friday’s Senate recess date fast approaching, the Obama Administration is reportedly pushing the body’s 100 members there to get their acts together and vote for more funding to keep the program alive. Two senators who had been seen as potential roadblocks to getting C.A.R.S. the quick $2 billion that the House has approved, Dianne Feinstein (D) and Susan Collins (R), have now said the Administration had “eased their concerns” and are now in favor of granting the funds. Read more

Cash for Clunkers Suspended Indefinitely: $1 billion Already Gone

White House officials and lawmakers were studying late Thursday how to keep alive the government’s cash-for-clunkers incentive program because of concerns the program’s $1 billion budget may have been exhausted after just one week. Read more