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Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

Date: March 10, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Transportation


TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: A LEGACY FOR USERS -- (House of Representatives - March 10, 2005)

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Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) for yielding me time.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the gentleman's amendment. I believe that the Federal government and the Congress need to be part of the solution to cities around the country that are in non-attainment status.

This amendment is a good step in providing relief for cities such as Columbus, Georgia, in Muskogee County, part of my 11th Congressional District, that only recently has been designated non-attainment, and it is non-attainment of this PM-2.5 that the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) was just talking about, these tiny 2.5 or below microparticulate matter.

We can save for another day, I guess, the debate over particulate matter non-attainment and whether cities such as Columbus should be designated as such. But today, I would like to say thank you to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) for offering this amendment that will allow funding to be provided to these cities.

I understand the gentleman may withdraw the amendment. I appreciate the ranking member being willing to work with him on trying to resolve this. But on behalf of the people of Muskogee County and the City Columbus and Phoenix City, Alabama, as well, I think this is a good idea and I commend the amendment.

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