Call your Representative TODAY to support bridge repair and safe streets for everyone

February 1, 2012
By Stephen Lee Davis

The House transportation committee will vote on their draft transportation bill in less than 24 hours on Thursday morning. Can you take a moment and make a phone call today? Time is running out to improve the House’s bill!

Locate your Representative on the transportation committee below in the list below. Also note the key statistics on the number and percentage of deficient bridges in your district from the table!

Then call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to speak to your Representative. When a staffer picks up, you can share this message below with him or her, or first ask to speak to a legislative associate that handles transportation and share this message with them. (Don’t know what district you’re in? Use this tool.)

And then say something along these lines:

My name is [NAME] and I live in [PLACE]. I’m calling to ask Representative [NAME] to please vote for two amendments in Thursday’s transportation committee markup. Please vote for the amendment from Reps. Petri and Johnson to restore the dedicated funding that helps make streets safer for people on foot or bike, and secondly, please vote for a possible amendment requiring states to first repair their deficient bridges, unless their bridges are in good condition.

We need to require states to put a priority on fixing the country’s 69,000 bridges before spending money on new highways. There are [NUMBER] deficient bridges in the Representative’s Congressional district, according to a Taxpayers for Common Sense report. The House transportation bill must address this backlog.

Last year pedestrian deaths increased while vehicle deaths dropped. It makes no sense to cut the tiny slice of dedicated funding that helps make streets safer for everyone on foot or bike.

Thank you so much for your time.

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Member	State	District	# Deficient Bridges	Percent Deficient
Donald E. Young	AK	00	131	13.46%
Rick Crawford	AR	01	325	8.24%
Jeffrey J. Denham	CA	19	127	18.76%
Laura Richardson	CA	37	61	26.41%
Grace F. Napolitano	CA	38	19	7.63%
Gary G. Miller	CA	42	13	5.65%
Bob Filner	CA	51	29	4.36%
Duncan D. Hunter	CA	52	22	5.33%
Eleanor Holmes Norton	DC	98	17	10.06%
Steve Southerland	FL	02	34	3.22%
Corrine Brown	FL	03	15	3.01%
John L. Mica	FL	07	10	2.64%
Mazie K. Hirono	HI	02	98	15.61%
Leonard L. Boswell	IA	03	804	25.99%
Daniel Lipinski	IL	03	17	9.04%
Jerry F. Costello	IL	12	130	6.35%
Randall M. (Randy) Hultgren	IL	14	79	6.50%
Timothy V. Johnson	IL	15	374	7.06%
Larry Bucshon	IN	08	557	15.66%
Jeffrey Landry	LA	03	124	10.48%
Michael E. Capuano	MA	08	50	14.49%
Andrew P. Harris*	MD	01
Donna F. Edwards*	MD	04
Elijah E. Cummings*	MD	07
Michael H. Michaud	ME	02	240	15.47%
Candice S. Miller	MI	10	125	11.35%
Timothy J. Walz	MN	01	811	13.47%
Chip Cravaack	MN	08	204	9.52%
Russ Carnahan	MO	03	62	8.77%
Sam Graves	MO	06	1313	22.19%
Billy Long	MO	07	271	13.46%
Howard Coble	NC	06	180	12.67%
Heath Shuler	NC	11	368	13.21%
Frank Guinta	NH	01	110	14.25%
Frank A. Lobiondo	NJ	02	67	11.15%
Albio Sires	NJ	13	38	10.80%
Shelley Berkley	NV	01	1	0.39%
Jerrold Nadler	NY	08	13	9.56%
Richard Hanna	NY	24	259	14.11%
Jean Schmidt*	OH	02
Bob Gibbs*	OH	18
James Lankford	OK	05	327	17.60%
Peter A. DeFazio	OR	04	139	6.30%
Jason Altmire	PA	04	349	32.08%
Patrick Meehan	PA	07	89	18.02%
Bill Shuster	PA	09	676	25.80%
Lou Barletta	PA	11	330	27.71%
Tim Holden	PA	17	358	26.48%
John J. Duncan Jr.	TN	02	46	3.62%
Chuck Fleischmann	TN	03	108	6.77%
Steve Cohen	TN	09	39	5.68%
Blake Farenthold	TX	27	26	2.71%
Eddie Bernice Johnson	TX	30	16	1.53%
Rick Larsen	WA	02	46	5.12%
Jaime Herrera Beutler	WA	03	37	3.59%
Thomas E. Petri	WI	06
Reid Ribble	WI	08
Shelley Moore Capito	WV	02	280	14.28%
Nick J. Rahall	WV	03	354	17.61%

A list of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Members with the count of deficient bridges in their district. From the Taxpayers for Common Sense report, available here. The representatives missing bridge counts did not have reliable data in the Taxpayers report.