Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: A LEGACY FOR USERS -- (House of Representatives - March 10, 2005)
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Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment No. 5 offered by Mr. Issa:
At the end of section 1208 of the bill, insert the following:
(d) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary and the States should provide additional incentives (including the use of high occupancy vehicle lanes on State and Interstate highways) for the purchase and use of hybrid and other fuel efficient vehicles, which have been proven to minimize air emissions and decrease consumption of fossil fuels.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 144, the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa).
Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am hopeful and believe that there will be no opposition to this well-crafted, narrowly crafted amendment to this legislation.
I want to thank Chairman Young and the members of the committee who helped make this a very good amendment. This amendment, Mr. Chairman, seeks to empower our States when they have excess capacity in their HOV lanes to use that capacity to encourage and promote the superlow-emissions hybrid vehicles that are just emerging on our highways today. California and other States have passed laws in anticipation of our doing our job to allow this. I believe that it will promote superlow emissions, higher-efficiency vehicles for a period of only 4 years to give this an opportunity.
I would urge all of our colleagues to bear in mind that when we authorized HOV lanes, we did so for two purposes: one was to reduce congestion; the other was to save fuel. Hybrid vehicles do an excellent job of saving fuel. I urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment.
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Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am hopeful and believe that there will be no opposition to this well-crafted, narrowly crafted amendment to this legislation.
I want to thank Chairman Young and the members of the committee who helped make this a very good amendment. This amendment, Mr. Chairman, seeks to empower our States when they have excess capacity in their HOV lanes to use that capacity to encourage and promote the superlow-emissions hybrid vehicles that are just emerging on our highways today. California and other States have passed laws in anticipation of our doing our job to allow this. I believe that it will promote superlow emissions, higher-efficiency vehicles for a period of only 4 years to give this an opportunity.
I would urge all of our colleagues to bear in mind that when we authorized HOV lanes, we did so for two purposes: one was to reduce congestion; the other was to save fuel. Hybrid vehicles do an excellent job of saving fuel. I urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment.
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