[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 1, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H1051-H1052]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              TIGER GRANTS

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Transportation has 
announced its eighth round of grants will be awarded under the 
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, 
program.
  TIGER grants are awarded on a competitive basis to surface 
transportation capital projects. Weight is given to proposals that will 
have a significant local or national impact, generate economic 
development, and increase access to affordable transportation.
  Western New York has received TIGER grants totaling more than $39 
million to restore access to Main

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Street in Buffalo and construct a new international train station in 
Niagara Falls. As a result, businesses are returning to the theater 
district and tourism is growing in Niagara Falls, New York.
  The TIGER program sends the message during this period of tragic 
underinvestment in our infrastructure that America can still tackle the 
big projects that historically have grown our economy.
  I urge support of the TIGER program.

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