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Letter to the Hon. Mario Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee and the Hon. David Price, Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee - Congress Members Seek Expansion of TIGER Transportation Funding

Letter

By: Maxine Waters, Ruben Gallego, Mike Thompson, Mark DeSaulnier, Jim Costa, Adam Schiff, Norma Torres, Mark Takano, Scott Peters, Ed Perlmutter, Elizabeth Esty, Stephanie Murphy, Alcee Hastings, Sr., Frederica Wilson, Colleen Hanabusa, Dan Lipinski, Bill Foster, Jim McGovern, Stephen Lynch, John Delaney, Dan Kildee, Brenda Lawrence, Rick Nolan, Carol Shea-Porter, Don Payne, Jr., Dina Titus, Gregory Meeks, Joe Crowley, Joyce Beatty, Peter DeFazio, David Cicilline, Vicente Gonzalez, Gene Green, Donald McEachin, Peter Welch, Denny Heck, Kyrsten Sinema, Doris Matsui, Barbara Lee, Anna Eshoo, Tony Cárdenas, Raul Ruiz, Nanette Barragán, Susan Davis, Joe Courtney, Eleanor Norton, Darren Soto, Lois Frankel, Hank Johnson, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Danny Davis, Cheri Bustos, Niki Tsongas, Bill Keating, Elijah Cummings, Sandy Levin, Tim Walz, Emanuel Cleaver II, Annie Kuster, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jacky Rosen, Hakeem Jeffries, Sean Maloney, Marcia Fudge, Bob Brady, Jim Langevin, Beto O'Rourke, Eddie Johnson, Don Beyer, Jr., Suzan DelBene, Mark Pocan, Jared Huffman, Ami Bera, Jackie Speier, Julia Brownley, Grace Napolitano, Karen Bass, Alan Lowenthal, Diana DeGette, Rosa DeLauro, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Val Demings, Ted Deutch, John Lewis, Dave Loebsack, Jan Schakowsky, André Carson, Joe Kennedy III, John Sarbanes, Jamie Raskin, Debbie Dingell, Keith Ellison, G. K. Butterfield, Jr., Frank Pallone, Jr., Michelle Lujan Grisham, Ruben Kihuen, Jerry Nadler, Louise Slaughter, Suzanne Bonamici, Brendan Boyle, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, Marc Veasey, Gerry Connolly, Pramila Jayapal, Gwen Moore, John Garamendi, Jerry McNerney, Eric Swalwell, Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Linda Sánchez, Juan Vargas, Jared Polis, Jim Himes, Al Lawson, Jr., Kathy Castor, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, David Scott, Bobby Rush, Brad Schneider, John Yarmuth, Seth Moulton, Anthony Brown, Chellie Pingree, John Conyers, Jr., Collin Peterson, Alma Adams, Albio Sires, Ben Luján, Jr., Kathleen Rice, Adriano Espaillat, Brian Higgins, Earl Blumenauer, Mike Doyle, Jr., Al Green, Joaquin Castro, Bobby Scott, Stacey Plaskett, Adam Smith
Date: April 4, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Infrastructure Government Budget and Spending

Dear Chairman Diaz-Balart and Ranking Member Price:

We write to request that you support job creation through infrastructure investment by providing $1.25 billion for the TIGER program in the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018.

TIGER -- formally known as Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery -- is a nationwide competitive grant program that creates jobs by funding investments in transportation infrastructure by states, local governments, and transit agencies. The TIGER program funds projects that will have a significant regional impact and deliver benefits in five critical national objectives, including safety, economic competitiveness, state of good repair, quality of life, and environmental sustainability.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) just released its report card on our nation's infrastructure and gave our country a grade of "D+". ASCE estimates that we will need to invest $4.59 trillion by 2025 in order to repair our infrastructure.

Robust funding for TIGER will help to bring our nation's transportation infrastructure into the 21st century. TIGER grants have helped to finance a wide variety of innovative projects building and repairing roads, bridges, public transit systems, ports, rail lines, and bicycle and pedestrian networks. Moreover, TIGER encourages cooperation between agencies and jurisdictions and often funds multi-modal, multi-jurisdictional projects that are difficult to support through traditional transportation programs.

Safe, efficient transportation networks benefit the economy by facilitating the movement of goods and services and benefit individuals and communities by improving access to work, school, health facilities, shopping, and entertainment opportunities.

We therefore urge you to provide $1.25 billion for TIGER grants in FY 2018. We appreciate your attention to our concerns.


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