Transportation
Information regarding my stance on Transportation issues.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the House-Senate Conference Committee for the federal highway funding bill and a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today hailed the House passage of H.R. 22, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), a bipartisan, long-term surface transportation bill. The FAST Act provides $305 billion in guaranteed funding for America’s transportation and infrastructure programs over five years. It also reauthorizes the Export-Import Bank for four years.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has selected a proposal from the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) for $2,640,000 in federal funding under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) program for the purchase of three new electric rail trolleys for downtown Memphis.
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today was named to the House-Senate Conference Committee for the federal surface transportation reauthorization bill: the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act (DRIVE Act).
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – The House of Representatives today approved an amendment to H.R. 22, the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act (surface transportation bill) offered by Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Congressman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), and Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) to provide local transit systems increased flexibility to enhance and improve Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit services.
[Washington, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined 265 of his Democratic and Republican colleagues in voting for H.R. 1314, the bipartisan budget package, to help avert a fiscal crisis, boost spending caps, protect seniors, and raise the debt ceiling.