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Coburn’s (R-OK) Efforts to Attack Transportation Enhancements Failed
Senator Coburn’s (R-OK) efforts to attack transportation enhancements failed. Yesterday he introduced two amendments to the FY10 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill that would strike funding for transportation enhancements: S. Amendment 2370 which prohibited funding for transportation enhancements if the Highway Trust Fund does not contain amounts sufficient to cover unfunded highway authorizations and S. Amendment 2371 which would not allow states to spend their 10 percent of their surface transportation funding on transportation enhancements.
The League and several bike/ped advocacy organizations asked members to call their senators in opposition of these amendments – and your help worked! S. Amendment 2370 was withdrawn, and S. Amendment 2371 lost 39-59!!! You can see how your Senators voted here.
Thank you for all of the phone calls and emails to your senators!
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September 16th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Looks like I sent my emails a little too late on this one. It will still be good to get some feedback on this one though. Government is looking to save money EVERYWHERE, and it will be interesting to see where our elected officials stand on this issue.
Anyone have a link available to see how our senators voted?
September 16th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
You can see how your senators voted HERE.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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