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Motorcycle Riders Foundation
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For Immediate Release
30 January 2009
Contact: Jeff Hennie,
Vice President of Government Relations (MRF)
Email: jeff@mrf.org
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation reports on the jurisdiction, agenda and
member makeup of the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
This Committee has many scopes of interest including waterways and marine
affairs, postal buildings, and the US Capitol grounds and building, but
most importantly to motorcyclists are the areas listed below.
1. Constructions or maintenance of roads and post roads;
2. Related transportation regulatory agencies (except the
Transportation Security Administration);
3. Roads and the safety thereof; how does this differ from #1? Could be
clearer.
4. Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water
transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety and
transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland
Security), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and
railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related
thereto).
Also of great importance is that this is the committee that will draft the
next version of the highway bill. This is the bill that has fueled
motorcycle safety funding, the creation of the Federal Highway Motorcycle
Advisory Council and the NHTSA lobby ban. On the other side, this bill has
also been used as a vehicle for mandatory state helmet laws by withholding
highway construction funds where states did not have mandatory helmet laws
in place.
The current (111th) Congress will begin to address this massive piece of
legislation, and it is imperative that the Motorcycle Riders Foundation
have the support of the State Motorcycle Rights Organizations and their
members as we begin to work with the Congress. Below is a list of current
committee members; should you see someone on this list from your state,
expect to be contacted by the MRF as we move forward working with the
Congress on creating a motorcyclist friendly highway bill.
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota, Chairman
Democrats
* Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia
* Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
* Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
* Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia
* Jerrold Nadler, New York
* Corrine Brown, Florida
* Bob Filner, California
* Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas
* Gene Taylor, Mississippi
* Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland
* Ellen O. Tauscher, California
* Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa
* Tim Holden, Pennsylvania
* Brian Baird, Washington
* Rick Larsen, Washington
* Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
* Timothy H. Bishop, New York
* Michael H. Michaud, Maine
* Russ Carnahan, Missouri
* Grace F. Napolitano, California
* Daniel Lipinski, Illinois
* Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii
* Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania
* Timothy J. Walz, Minnesota
* Heath Shuler, North Carolina
* Michael A. Arcuri, New York
* Harry E. Mitchell, Arizona
* Christopher P. Carney, Pennsylvania
* John J. Hall, New York
* Steve Kagen, Wisconsin
* Steve Cohen, Tennessee
* Laura Richardson, California
* Albio Sires, New Jersey
* Donna F. Edwards, Maryland
* Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
* Phil Hare, Illinois
* John A. Boccieri, Ohio
* Mark H. Schauer, Michigan
* Betsy Markey, Colorado
* Parker Griffith, Alabama
* Michael E. McMahon, New York
* Thomas S.P. Perriello, Virginia
* Dina Titus, Nevada
* Harry Teague, New Mexico
Republicans
* John L. Mica, Florida, Ranking Republican Member
* Don Young, Alaska
* Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
* Howard Coble, North Carolina
* John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
* Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
* Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
* Jerry Moran, Kansas
* Gary G. Miller, California
* Henry E. Brown, South Carolina
* Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
* Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
* Sam Graves, Missouri
* Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
* John Boozman, Arkansas
* Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
* Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
* Mario Diaz-Balart,Florida
* Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania
* Connie Mack, Florida
* Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia
* Jean Schmidt, Ohio
* Candice S. Miller, Michigan
* Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
* Vern Buchanan, Florida
* Robert E. Latta, Ohio
* Brett Guthrie, Kentucky
* Anh "Joseph" Cao, Louisiana
* Aaron Schock, Illinois
* Pete Olson, Tex
Corrections:
In a previous release Steve Garets was incorrectly identified as a faculty
member of the University of Oregon. Garets is a staff member of Oregon
State. Our apologies for confusing the OSU Beavers with the U of O Ducks.
In the same release the NHTSA quarterly meeting was summarized. In that
summary was a list of meeting attendees. Mistakenly left off that list was
ASMI or Accident Scene Management Inc., who has been sending a
representative to the quarterly motorcycle safety meeting. To learn more
about them visit www.accidentscene.org
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