Mobile office hours offered during constituents’ commute to work U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) traveled this morning on the W Light Rail Line to talk with constituents during their morning commutes about transportation and infrastructure issues and other concerns or questions. Similar to Rep. Perlmutter’s ‘Government in the Grocery’ events, today’s mobile office hours provided an opportunity to talk with constituents at a time and place that’s most convenient for them. Rep. Perlmutter started...
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Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) sent a letter to Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi calling for a long-term solution to funding the Highway Trust Fund. The letter was led by Reps. Ed Perlmutter, Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18), John Carney (DE At Large District) and John Delaney (MD-6), and signed by 30 members of the New Democrat Coalition. Authorization for funding the Highway Trust Fund expires July 31, 2015. “We have an opportunity in the coming months to agree on a plan that will bring ...
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Deputy Secretary of Transportation, Gov. Hickenlooper, local elected officials and impacted businesses celebrate end of construction impacts; beginning of multi-modal benefits The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) today celebrated the completion of Phase 1 of the US 36 Express Lanes Project with its partners at a grand opening ceremony. CDOT was joined by its partners, the Regional Transportation District (RTD), the High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE), the US Department...
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Media Contact: Danielle Radovich Piper - (303) 274-7944 U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter released the following statement after voting no on a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund: “Authorizing a two-month extension for the Highway Trust Fund is no way to govern. Republicans have had 10 months to develop a long-term plan and the best they came up with is a two-month extension. A multi-year surface transportation reauthorization is needed to provide certainty allowing for long-term planning and...
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Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) successfully authored an amendment to H.R. 749, the Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) 2005 rule on the use of locomotive horns at rail crossings. “It's time to update and modernize train horn regulations to allow flexibility for new technologies and innovations,” said Rep. Perlmutter. “Establishing a Quiet Zone can take years of work and cost millions of dollars delaying i...
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