Issue Position: Transportation

Issue Position

Values

- Congress must provide the long-term predictability that states need to undertake major construction projects. The short-term extensions to the highway transportation law have been necessary to keep current projects running. However, comprehensive transportation legislation is needed.
- The safety of our nation's highways and bridges must be improved. Among other things, a finalized transportation plan must encourage private investment through public-private partnerships so that we can use the least amount of taxpayer dollars and accelerate the construction of priority projects.
- Believes states need to be provided more flexibility to determine their own unique transportation priorities, including highways, bridges, tunnels, recreational trials, and walking and bicycling paths.
- I am troubled by the roughly 10,000 preventable deaths each year in the U.S. caused by alcohol-related driving incidents. As a former practicing attorney, I have witnessed firsthand the devastation caused by alcohol-related driving incidents, and I support law enforcement efforts that prevent, apprehend, and penalize those responsible.

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