I tried in the last transportation bill, I offered an amendment that said that any entity that gets Federal money through transportation for streets and roads and things like that had to incorporate in their planning and architecture bike paths and walking paths.
Tom Harkin discusses a failed amendment for bike paths in transportation planning.
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the benefits of the Federal Perkins Loan Program to students and how critically important the program is to reauthorize as part of the Higher Education Act.
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