I have one comment. We have a budgetary issue because we don't have as robustly funded a transportation bill as we need. I appreciate the comments of the chairman of the committee, but that problem is something that is going to be hamstringing every activity we do, whether it is mass transit or bikes. My hope is that, by the end of this process, we are finally going to put the money into our infrastructure--every component of it that we need. I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), my friend, who we all know in the United States House of Representatives is the champion of bikers everywhere.
On the recordNovember 3, 2015
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