Senate Names Reauthorization Conferees!
May 21, 2004
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The Senate late Wednesday finally reached an agreement to
conference with the House on TEA 21 reauthorization legislation. The deal,
reached between Senate Majority Leader Frist (R-TN) and Minority Leader Daschle
(D-SD), directs the Senate's conferees "…to work in good faith to
achieve a conference agreement that reflects the balance and broad bipartisan
consensus S.1072 achieved."
The 11 Republican and 10 Democrat conferees are: Senator Inhofe (R-OK), who
will chair the conference, and Senators Bond (R-MO), McConnell (R-KY), Voinovich
(R-OH), Warner (R-VA), Nickles (R-OK), Shelby (R-AL), Grassley (R-IA), McCain
(R-AZ), Lott (R-MS), Hatch (R-UT), Jeffords (I-VT), Reid (D-NV), Sarbanes
(D-MD), Baucus (D-MT), Conrad (D-ND), Daschle (D-SD), Hollings (D-SC), Graham
(D-FL), Lieberman (D-CT), and Boxer (D-CA). The House has yet to name its
conferees but is expected to do so the week of June 1, when the House returns
from the Memorial Day recess.
It is not clear when the Conference Committee will begin to meet, but staff-level
discussions are expected to begin during the recess. APTA and its coalition
partners will be urging the conferees to support the Senate bill's highway
and transit funding level of $318 billion. For further information, contact
APTA's Rob Healy at (202) 496-4811 or email rhealy@apta.com.
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Action Call!
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With Congress on recess next week, contact your
congressional delegation's district offices and urge them to support
a reauthorization bill in conference with funding levels no less
than those in the Senate-passed bill (S.1072) - $318 billion overall,
with $56.5 billion for transit.
- Beginning next week when a new message focusing on this latest information
will be available, use the Transit Action Center on the APTA website
at www.apta.com to make your support for reauthorization known. With
the conference on the legislation about to begin, your support is
critical!
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