[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       PLEA FOR BIKE PARTISANSHIP

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, the most important act that we can do to 
promote livable communities on behalf of the Federal Government is 
simply to lead by example. There are 65 million Americans who cycle. A 
simple four-mile round trip on a bicycle saves 15 pounds of air 
pollution.
  Members of this assembly have the opportunity to help lead by example 
by joining the Bicycle Caucus Tuesday morning with Secretary of 
Transportation Rodney Slater and the Washington Area Bicycle 
Association for a ribbon cutting for the new metropolitan branch trail.
  If you do not have a bike, Member of Congress, let us know and we 
will loan you one for the event. You will have fun. Join the bicycle 
caucus, do right for America.
  As we hear the battling here on the floor, this is an activity that 
is ``bike'' partisan. I think it will be good for us all to get on two 
wheels and inaugurate that trail.

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