After more than a month of being detained by authorities, Sam LaHood will be allowed to leave Egypt's borders. We're guessing he's going to head straight home, to the old U.S. of A.
The son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood got stopped when he tried to board a plane out of Cairo, apparently because Egyptian authorities are still trying to decide whether a non-governmental organization he runs there broke the law.
In this year's edition of their annual gag very serious press release, the Department of Transportation has announced today that, as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned, all systems are go for Santa Claus's flight across the world.
Boehner felt the need to release phone call transcript insisted the GOP had done something on jobs
But the Transportation Secretary is a fan of bicycles
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