Political Action
Support Highway Trust Fund Fix
Support Highway Trust Fund Fix
Support H.R. 6532
Action Alert:
Call Your Member of Congress to Prevent a 34 Percent Cut in Federal Highway Investment!
Your state’s federal highway funding could be cut by 34 percent next year unless Congress takes action soon. Key members of the U.S. House of Representatives have just introduced a bi-partisan solution, H.R. 6532, that would avert this devastating cut. We need your member of the U.S. House to co-sponsor H.R. 6532 right away.
What H.R. 6532 Would Do
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) and Ranking Member John Mica (R-Fla.) are sponsoring H.R. 6532. The bill would reimburse the federal Highway Trust Fund’s Highway Account for $8 billion that was transferred out of the account to the federal General Fund by the 1998 surface transportation reauthorization law, TEA-21. Although this legislation was enacted 10 years ago, the fact remains the transferred funds were highway user fee revenues. If these revenues had not been diverted to non-transportation purposes, the Highway Account would still be able to support the investment commitments made in the 2005 highway/transit bill, SAFETEA-LU.
Timing
Members of the House can sign on to co-sponsor H.R. 6532 until Monday, so please call your representative today. This is a “second chance” to prevent a 34 percent ($14 billion) cut in federal highway investment next year after recent efforts before July 4 failed. Time is running out to solve this problem, so please act today. To see how your state would be impacted by this cut, go to www.transportationconstructioncoalition.org.
Call Now
Please use the ARTBA Toll Free Action Hotline, 1-888-448-2782, to contact your U.S. representative and urge him/her to co-sponsor H.R. 6532, the Highway Trust Fund “fix.” Please tell them:
Failure to pass H.R. 6532 would result in a $14 billion cut in highway investment that would result in 485,000 lost jobs which the U.S. economy cannot afford.
H.R. 6532 would simply recapture lost highway user fee revenue that should have been invested in improving the nation's transportation network in the first place.