Senate Conferees Offer $318 Billion Funding Level
June 25, 2004
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Congress agreed to another temporary extension of TEA 21,
which will run through July 31. Meanwhile, at the second meeting of the TEA
21 Reauthorization Conference Committee on June 23, Senate leaders formally
offered House conferees the Senate's $318 billion six-year funding level for
TEA 21 reauthorization. The offer came after Senate rejection of a suggestion
by House Republican leadership to write a reauthorization bill at $275 billion
over six years. The House conferees are expected to respond to the Senate
offer by July 7, the date of the next scheduled Conference Committee hearing.
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Action Call!
We need your help during the Congressional Recess June
25 to July 5!
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Reauthorization. Agreement on the overall
funding level is key to producing a six-year reauthorization bill.
We need you to contact your Congressional delegation's district
office - especially members of the House - and urge them to support
the Senate's $318 billion, six-year funding level with $56.5 billion
in guaranteed funds for transit!
- Appropriations. Urge your House and Senate congressional
delegation to work with House and Senate appropriators to fund transit
at the highest level possible in the FY 2005 appropriations process.
Point out the level of FY 2005 funding for transit in the House-passed
reauthorization bill (H.R. 3550) - $7.75 billion, and in the Senate-passed
reauthorization bill (S. 1072) - $8.54 billion.
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For more information, please contact Rob Healy in the APTA Government Affairs
Department at (202) 496-4811, or rhealy@apta.com.
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