[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE FAILED TRANSPORTATION BILL

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, as Congress adjourns for the week for 
the Presidents Day Recess, I'm hopeful that Members will go back to 
their districts and talk to them about the failed transportation bill 
that has mercifully been pulled back from the floor.
  My Republican colleagues decided, for the first time in history, to 
put forth a partisan transportation bill, never had a hearing, that 
would have gutted transit. It would have reversed 20 years of 
transportation reform. It would have even eliminated the wildly popular 
Safe Routes to School program.
  I would hope that they go back and they talk to their contractors, 
their local government officials, parents, and the PTA to understand 
why those programs are important, why that bill is flawed, why America 
deserves a better, bipartisan, visionary transportation bill to rebuild 
and renew America and put our people back to work.

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