Email senator boxer - Transportation
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furbrats! at 09.23.08 - 6:40 pm
http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm
Dear Friend:
Traffic and air quality are issues that impact all Californians. We all hope to quickly and safely travel to work or school and then home to our families. We also all depend on clean air that is too often degraded by cars, trucks and trains.
As the Chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works, one of my most important priorities for the coming year is to authorize a new federal highway, transit and highway safety bill. The aim of the bill is to improve surface transportation nationwide, which can help improve our air quality as well. My committee has begun the process to write the next bill. I am writing to you both to offer some information about the process and to ask for your thoughts about the focus and priorities of the bill.
Recently, I held briefings in California to hear from transportation officials in California about their priorities. With the following links, you can watch video of the two briefings in Sacramento and Los Angeles and read the testimony of the witnesses:
Field Briefing in Los Angeles: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=76ce6ed8-802a-23ad-44dd-b18eee583fda
I also want to hear from you. I want to know your priorities for the next federal transportation bill. I hope you will use the instructions at the bottom of this page to send me your thoughts about what the transportation priorities for the nation should be for the coming years. What can be done to best reduce congestion? Do you want more public transit? What should be done to more quickly move freight across the nation? While these are not easy questions, I would like to hear from you. By considering the thoughts of Californians, I think we can craft a better bill for the nation.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
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It's not like the Senator is actually going to read our messages no matter when we send them. She has a transportation deputy who will be doing the reading and I doubt he/she is going to be working on the Wall Street stuff. Maybe in Feinstein's office, but Boxer is chair of the committee that oversees transportation and she's going to have people that just do transportation.
daymen09.24.08 - 9:51 am
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