Issue Position: Transportation

Issue Position

Investing in Transportation:

As your representative in Congress, one of my foremost duties is to help ensure that South Texas receives our fair share of federal funding. Every 5 years Congress passes a major transportation bill to fund national priorities such as highways, mass transit, and infrastructure repairs.

These federal funds may be disbursed in either of two ways: through block funding to government agencies or through direct funding of specific projects.

Each method serves an important purpose. Money provided to agencies accounts for approximately 99% of discretionary federal spending, and it provides for the day-to-day financing of most federal activities. The remaining 1% is directed by lawmakers to specific projects, a practice that dates back for centuries and that allows Members of Congress -- who are directly accountable to local voters -- to give their communities a voice in federal spending.

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