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![]() ![]() Mica (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, also struck at the administration’s $50 billion infrastructure spending plan. In a letter to the president, Costello highlighted the economic benefits of waterway transportation, saying that inland rivers move “hundreds of millions of tons of domestic commerce valued at $325 billion annually.†![]() Jerry Costello (D-Ill.), noting that Obama’s transportation infrastructure proposal focused on highways, railroads and air transport, urged the president to include funding for the modernization and maintenance of the inland navigation system. “To not include and dismiss our nation’s most environmentally sound, energy efficient and congestion-relieving mode of transportation, when its lock and dam infrastructure consistently earns a ‘D’ grade, is unreasonable and unacceptable.†€œOur inland waterways not only support people who work on our rivers, but workers in our agricultural community and the many industries who rely on our waterways for affordable transportation of their goods, both domestically and for world markets,†Martin said. said the waterways transportation industry was “disappointed and puzzled†by the absence of waterway or port projects in the president’s plan. Responding to President Obama’s announcement that he would ask Congress for a $50 billion long-term spending plan for roads, railways and runways, Cornel Martin, president and CEO of Waterways Council Inc. Obama’s transport plan scored for absence of waterway funds ![]()
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