Nadler Amendment Restores Transit Funding

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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the senior Northeastern Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, offered a bipartisan amendment designed to restore transit funding to H.R. 7, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, the House's Surface Transportation Bill. As H.R. 7 is currently drafted, the 30-year-old dedicated funding stream for mass transit is eliminated, imperiling long-term funding for transit projects across the country. A vote on H.R. 7 is expected for Wednesday.

"H.R. 7, as written, presents a catastrophic prospect for every city and commuter suburb in our nation," said Nadler. "To eliminate transit's dedicated funding stream and relegate funding to the political machinations of the appropriations process is, effectively, to kill transit funding. In 1982, President Reagan raised the gas tax and added mass transit to the Highway Trust Fund. He certainly believed that mass transit deserved stable funding. It has worked well for the last three decades, and there is no reason to change it now."

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