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Last week, House Republicans on both the Transportation and Infrastructure and the Ways and Means committees approved the worst transportation bill I have seen in my 19 years in Congress. 

Perhaps the worst provision of this terrible bill â€" H.R. 7, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act â€" would eliminate the guaranteed funding for mass transit that we have relied on for 30 years, and would make transit dependent on the politics of annual appropriations, which, if the last year has taught us anything, leads to dysfunction and inaction.

This is a draconian and unacceptable blow to transit funding, one which would result in disastrous changes for millions of New Yorkers and others who rely on mass transit for basic mobility and economic functioning.

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