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SoCal lawmakers have little presence on Transportation Committee
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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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August 6, 2005
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WASHINGTON - Call it congestion without representation.
Despite its more than 3,300 miles of freeway and countless traffic
woes, Southern California has only two representatives on the House
Transportation Committee, an imbalance that local experts - and even
one lawmaker - said may have hurt the region's effort to bring in
more dollars from the new federal highway bill.
"Clearly we don't have the representation," said Mark Pisano,
executive director of the Southern California Association of
Governments.
"We've had a hard time getting people to serve on the committee.
They've got a lot of other interests, I guess. Infrastructure and
building doesn't seem to have the sense of priority that it ...
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