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FILE - In this Monday, April 29, 2013, file photo, then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, after President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, to succeed LaHood. On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the Department of Justice disclosed that former Illinois congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood, in 2019, paid a $40,000 fine for allegedly making misleading statements to federal agents about a loan and failing to disclose it on ethics forms. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

LaHood resigns Lincoln Museum job after loan fine disclosure

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FILE - In this Monday, April 29, 2013, file photo, then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, after President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, to succeed LaHood. On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the Department of Justice disclosed that former Illinois congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood, in 2019, paid a $40,000 fine for allegedly making misleading statements to federal agents about a loan and failing to disclose it on ethics forms. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Ray LaHood paid fine to resolve investigation into loan

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FILE - In this July 27, 1974, file photo, Rep. Thomas Railsback, R-Ill., right, confers with chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., during the House Judiciary Committee's debate on impeachment articles in Washington. Railsback, an Illinois Republican congressman who helped draw up articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon in 1974, has died at age 87. Former Republican congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood confirmed the death on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo, File)

GOP congressman who backed Nixon impeachment dead at 87

By HERBERT G. McCANN - Associated Press

Avianca passengers rest while waiting for their flight at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport Terminal 4, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Monday it will investigate the water pipe break that added to the weather-related delays at Kennedy Airport and will &quot;hold all responsible parties accountable.&quot; (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Ex-transportation chief to lead probe into JFK flight fiasco

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Metro funding plan has regional leaders at odds

By Julia Airey - The Washington Times

Ray LaHood’s Metro reform report

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

McAuliffe announces ‘top-to-bottom’ review of Metro

By ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

This photo taken April 14, 2014 shows Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx speaking to the media and local government officials about federal transportation funding at the Montgomery County Commissioner's office in Dayton, Ohio. On the road in a tour bus this week, Foxx is urging Congress to quickly approve legislation to pay for highway and transit programs amid warnings that the U.S. government’s Highway Trust Fund is nearly broke. If allowed to run dry, that could threaten to set back or shut down projects across the country, force widespread layoffs of construction workers and delay needed repairs and improvements. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)

Congress is giving states the transportation blues

By JOAN LOWY - Associated Press

LaHood joins board of green bus manufacturer

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Ex-Illinois congressman LaHood joins law firm

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** FILE ** Then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefs reporters regarding the sequester on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The relentless pursuit of cash

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

President Obama introduces Anthony Foxx as his nominee to be transportation secretary. Some see Mr. Foxx, mayor of Charlotte, N.C., as a rising star in the Democratic Party. (Associated Press)

Obama nominates rail advocate, paves way for more transportation spending

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration: FAA by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

THUNE AND SHUSTER: The FAA’s unfriendly skies

By John Thune and Bill Shuster

** FILE ** Then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefs reporters regarding the sequester on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Transportation Secretary LaHood: Sequester means furloughs

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefs reporters regarding the sequester on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

White House sequester warnings fall on deaf ears

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

LaHood to step down as secretary of transportation

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Ray Conner (center), flanked by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (left) and Federal Aviation Administration chief Michael Huerta, speaks during a news conference at the Transportation Department in Washington on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, to discuss a comprehensive review of the Boeing 787's critical systems, including its design, manufacture and assembly. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. officials defend handling of Boeing 787 mishaps

By Joan Lowy - Associated Press

**FILE** Boeing's newest aircraft, the Boeing 787, sits on the tarmac at Huntsville International Airport in Huntsville, Ala., on Jan. 27, 2012, after a 3600-mile flight from Dublin. (Associated Press/The Huntsville Times)

FAA to review of Boeing 787, but calls plane safe

By Joan Lowly and Joshua Freed - Associated Press

Delays litter long road to vehicle rearview rules

By LISA LEFF - Associated Press

**FILE** Continental Airlines Flight 3407 operated by Manassas, Va.-based Colgan Air, burns after crashing into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y., on Feb. 12, 2009. (Associated Press)

Fatal air crash decline presents safety challenge

By Joan Lowy - Associated Press