Former Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole and Mitchell Launch Transportation Study
Published By: Bipartisan Policy Center
January 5, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Amy Call:
202-379-1623
Former Leaders Baker,
Daschle, Dole and Mitchell Launch
Transportation Study Mark Warner, Slade Gorton
and Sherwood Boehlert to Lead 4th Major BPC
Project
WASHINGTON DC:
Former Senate Majority Leaders Baker, Daschle,
Dole and Mitchell today announced that the
Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) - a policy
driven organization the four leaders founded
last year - is establishing the National
Transportation Policy Project which will focus
on creating a new, pragmatic vision for U.S.
transportation policy. The project will be
chaired by former Governor Mark Warner, former
Senator Slade Gorton and former Congressman
Sherwood Boehlert. Additionally, the Project
will include a diverse array of leaders from
industry, academia, labor, and non-profit
organizations.
The Project’s goal is to
identify appropriate priorities for national
infrastructure funding and work to develop
politically viable policies that surmount
partisan and regional conflicts. Project
conclusions will be released in early 2009 in
advance of reauthorization of the surface
transportation act.
“Transportation
policy and investment are intimately related to
national economic growth.” stated Warner
“Maintaining domestic competitiveness will
require dramatic modernization including a
greater integration of our transportation and
communications systems.”
Gorton
explained “This project will be an opportunity
to examine the question of whether we are
developing the infrastructure necessary to
support our desired diversification away from
complete reliance upon petroleum based fuels.”
"The project, which will focus on the
links between transportation, economic
competitiveness, and energy security, will
provide clear direction to transportation
policy. The project's recommendations will, we
believe, be of significant value to the
incoming Congress and administration." Boehlert
said.
This effort is a project of the
Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). The BPC is led
by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker,
Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell. Its
broad goal is to improve the civility and
substance of our political discourse by
pursuing projects that are aggressively
bipartisan and designed to have a real impact
on a national policy debate. Toward this end,
the BPC is currently conducting projects on
national security, health care, and energy
policy in addition to this new transportation
initiative. For further information on the
transportation or other projects please visit
our website:
www.bipartisanpolicy.org.
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About the BPC:
Former
Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole and Mitchell
formed the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to
develop and promote solutions that can attract
the public support and political momentum to
achieve real progress. The BPC will act as an
incubator for policy efforts that engage top
political figures, advocates, academics and
business leaders in the art of principled
compromise. In addition to advancing specific
proposals, the BPC also intends to broadcast a
different type of policy discourse that seeks
to unite the constructive center in the pursuit
of common goals. For more information please
visit our website: http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/index.php/c/Home
