The Senate just passed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012 (92-6), which now goes to President Obama for signature. This extends the SAFETEA-LU act until March 2012, which is going to make for a VERY interesting Bike Summit when the full reauthorization should be coming to a vote.
Senator Pat Toomey was one of the 6 who voted AGAINST extending the bill for six months. Why vote against a bill that makes no policy changes and incurs no additional cost? Senator Toomey's autoresponse to our emails said "Please be assured that I will keep your views about transportation funding in mind as work continues on the Fiscal Year 2012 budget process and a transportation reauthorization bill." Did Senator Toomey have your views in mind when he cast his no vote today? You Decide! Send your Senator a thank you note for voting YES on the Transportation Extension bill. For those of you in PA, you can send Senator Toomey separate letter expressing your disappointment in him for voting NO. Click here to send a letter to both of your senators.
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I love the Philly Bicycle Coalition...But what the hell was this bill about?
Senator Coburn wanted to strip out a dedicated funding program for bike/ped projects of a bill that would extend the federal transportation bill for 6 months. He was holding up the vote unless he could add on his amendment. He backed down and the Senate voted 92 to 6 to pass the Transportation Bill extension. Toomey was one of the 6 who voted against the extension.
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