Norton Meets with Biden, Buttigieg to Discuss Transportation and Infrastructure

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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), along with other Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure leaders, met with President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at the White House yesterday to discuss transportation and infrastructure. Norton, who chairs the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, thanked Biden for placing transportation and infrastructure at the top of his agenda, and said the meeting covered, among other topics, the issues she spoke about: transit investment as part of the COVID-19 economic recovery, reducing the number of cars on roads by encouraging and maintaining public transportation, and helping the environment by providing convenient, inexpensive, climate-friendly transit options.

"I appreciated how closely President Biden listened to my remarks on transit, particularly considering its importance to transit-dependent D.C., as it is to millions of others throughout the United States," Norton said. "The Moving Forward Act, passed by our Committee last year, included significant investments in zero-emission buses and ferries in keeping with the President's goals of electrifying our transportation systems. I believe that transit is essential, especially considering its value for fighting climate change, and so does the President."

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