Strengthen Enhancements, CMAQ and Other Existing Programs
WE WON: Enhancements is Saved!
September 4, 2003:
House Votes in Favor of Pedals, Feet
See how your Representative
voted.
The Congressional Record includes the
complete proceedings on the introduction and
passage of the Petri-Olver amendment to HR 2989
on September 4th, 2003. Go to
http://thomas.loc.gov
then under Congressional Record, click on "this
Congress by date" then click on September 4th
then click on Item 17 then scroll down to page
H7870. The introduction of the Petri-Olver
amendment starts there. Click on the links in
the document to read the floor statements.
Yahoo! Thursday, September 4th, the House of
Representatives voted overwhelmingly to restore
funding for the Transportation Enhancements
program in the 2004 Transportation
Appropriations bill. A bi-partisan effort was
led by Representatives Petri (R-WI) and Olver
(D-MA).
The final vote was 327 aye
and 90 no.
Huge thanks to everyone who
wrote letters, made calls and let Congress know
that the Enhancements program was important.
Your voice was heard!
This victory not only
restores $600 million in dedicated funding for
2004, it puts the bicycle and pedestrian
community on strong footing for the bigger
battle over the reauthorization of TEA-21, the 6
year transportation funding bill.
“In attempting to gut the
Enhancements program, Representative Istook
(R-OK) threw us a curveball, but our community
hit it out of the park with bases loaded,” says
Martha Roskowski of America Bikes.
Records on how individual
members of Congress voted should be available
tomorrow. We’ll post a link here.
More details soon.
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