For them, and for others like them, we must try, try every day and every way, to teach drivers to respect the rights of those on foot, and to provide safer places for people who walk. And I can tell you this. Our message is getting out. Since 1994, we have reduced the number of pedestrians injured, every year, by several thousand. We must, and we shall, do better.
Tomorrow is an important day for transportation in our country.
From what I have seen, it looks like there are many areas in their bill that track what the President has proposed. There is more that we agree on than we disagree on. Like the President's proposal, the House wants to preserve the core highway program and to address transit needs of this country. They want to continue investments that clean the air in our cities. And they want to provide a new program, consistent with the President's proposal, that will help those special people coming off welfare get to work, because most of them have no cars.