Norton Chairs First House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Hearing, Discusses Transportation in the 21st Century

WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) chaired a House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit hearing for the first time in the 116th Congress today. The hearing is titled "Aligning Federal Surface Transportation Policy to Meet 21st Century Needs."

"Chief among our concerns are maintaining and upgrading our current infrastructure, modernizing our approach to infrastructure, including coping with climate change, and optimizing the way we move people and goods throughout the system." Norton said. "Chronic underinvestment by the federal government has made cleaning up no easy task. This reauthorization requires Congress to fully embrace new technologies and re-envision how we move people and goods across the country."