Margie Politzer
From "America Bikes"
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BIKE/PED FUNDING IN DANGER!
In a controversial move, a House subcommittee voted on July 11 to
eliminate federal funding for bike facilities from the 2004 budget.
The committee redirected the money to highways instead.
Funding for the popular Transportation Enhancements program was zeroed
out in the 2004 federal budget by a House Appropriations subcommittee
on Friday 7/11. The bill increases highway funding to $34.1 billion,
an increase of $2.5 billion over 2003 levels, in part by entirely
cutting funding for Enhancements, and severely reducing money
available for new transit projects and Amtrak.
A vote by the full Appropriations Committee may happen on Monday,
7/21. America Bikes and its partners are mobilizing cyclists to ask
Congress to restore full funding for this important program. More
details are available at www.americabikes.org/saveenhancements.
America Bikes is particularly concerned because not only does this
move eliminate the most important source of federal funding for bike
facilities in 2004, it also sets a bad precedent for the the next 6
year transportation bill, jeopardizing the bicycle community's efforts
to strengthen existing programs, build safer roads, and create a
strong national Safe Routes to School program.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY!
Fattah is at 215-387-6404 and 202-225-4001
Call your Representative's Washington DC office. Reach any Rep by
calling 202-224-3121 and asking to be transferred to the Rep�EUR(tm)s office.
If you don�EUR(tm)t know who your Rep is, find them on the League�EUR(tm)s new
service at http://econstituent.votenet.com/lab. Click on the elected
officials tab, enter your zip code, then click biography for phone
numbers.
Ask to speak to the staffer who works on Transportation
Appropriations. Introduce yourself. If you represent a club or
business, say so. If your Representative sits on the House
Appropriations Committee (see list of members below), ask them to
"restore funding in the 2004 budget for Enhancements and other
programs that help build a balanced transportation
system."
If your Representative does not sit on the Appropriations Committee,
say "I know your boss does not sit on Appropriations, but I am very
concerned about the bill in Appropriations that would eliminate
funding in 2004 for Transportation Enhancements and other programs
that are building a balanced transportation system. Please help
restore funding for Enhancements and other alternative transportation
programs."
Talk about the value of the Enhancements program and bicycling to your
business.
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE (July 2003):
Robert E. "Bud" Cramer Jr., D-Alabama,
Robert Aderholt, R-Alabama
Jim Kolbe, R-Arizona
Ed Pastor, D-Arizona
Marion Berry, R-Arkansas
Jerry Lewis, R-California
Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-California
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California
Sam Farr, D-California
John Doolittle, R-California
Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut
C.W. Bill Young, R-Florida, committee chair
Dave Weldon, R-Florida
Allen Boyd, D-Florida
Ander Crenshaw, R-Florida
Jack Kingston, R-Georgia
Sanford D. Bishop Jr., R-Georgia
Michael K. Simpson, R-Idaho
Ray LaHood, R-Illinois
Jesse L. Jackson Jr., D-Illinois
Mark Steven Kirk, R-Illinois
Peter J. Visclosky, D-Indiana
Tom Latham, R-Iowa
Todd Tiahrt, R-Kansas
Harold Rogers, R-Kentucky
Anne Northup, R-Kentucky
David Vitter, R-Louisiana
Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland
John W. Olver, D-Massachusetts
Joe Knollenberg, R-Michigan
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, D-Michigan
Martin Olav Sabo, D-Minnesota
Roger F. Wicker, R-Mississippi
Jo Ann Emerson, R-Missouri
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, R-New Jersey
Steven R. Rothman, D-New Jersey
James Walsh, R-New York
Nita M. Lowey, D-New York
José E. Serrano, D-New York
Maurice D. Hinchey, D-New York
John Sweeney, R-New York
Charles H. Taylor, R-North Carolina
David E. Price, D-North Carolina
Ralph Regula, R-Ohio
Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio
David L. Hobson, R-Ohio
Ernest J. Istook Jr., R-Oklahoma
John P. Murtha, D-Pennsylvania
John E. Peterson, R-Pennsylvania
Chaka Fattah, D-Pennsylvania
Don Sherwood, R-Pennsylvania
Patrick J. Kennedy, D-Rhode Island
James E. Clyburn, D-South Carolina
Zach Wamp, R-Tennessee
Henry Bonilla, R-Texas
Chet Edwards, D-Texas
Kay Granger, R-Texas
John Abney Culberson, R-Texas
Frank R. Wolf, R-Virginia
James P. Moran, D-Virginia
Virgil Goode, R-Virginia
George R. Nethercutt Jr., R-Washington
Norman D. Dicks, D-Washington
Alan B. Mollohan, D-West Virginia
David R. Obey, D-Wisconsin, ranking member
Martha Roskowski
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