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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2495 
Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for the TIGER 
Discretionary Grant program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 21, 2015 
Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California (for herself, Mr. COHEN, Ms. BASS, Mrs. 
BEATTY, Ms. BROWNLEY
of California, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. GUTIE´RREZ, Mr. 
KEATING, Ms. LEE, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. MEEKS, 
Ms. MOORE, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SIRES, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. 
WELCH, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. BRENDAN F. 
BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, 
Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. LAW-
RENCE, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. 
TAKANO, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. WALZ, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. 
CA´RDENAS, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mr. TED LIEU of California, 
Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. RICHMOND, Ms. HAHN, Ms. PLASKETT, Ms. 
JUDY CHU of California, Mr. HECK of Washington, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 
Mr. TONKO, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. HIMES, Ms. EDDIE BER-
NICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mr. DELANEY, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. CLAY, Mr. GARAMENDI, 
Mr. VEASEY, Mr. NOLAN, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM 
of New Mexico, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. KILDEE, and Mrs. DINGELL) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ap-
propriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for 
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the TIGER Discretionary Grant program, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘TIGER Grants for 
Job Creation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The economy is still struggling to recover 
from the recession. According to the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate is 5.4 per-
cent nationwide and is significantly higher in some 
minority and disadvantaged communities. 
(2) The American Society of Civil Engineers 
gave the public infrastructure of the United States 
a grade of ‘‘D+’’ in 2013 and estimated that we will 
need to invest $3.6 trillion by 2020 in order to im-
prove the condition of our Nation’s public infrastruc-
ture. 
(3) TIGER, formally known as the Transpor-
tation Investment Generating Economic Recovery 
grant program, is a nationwide competitive grant 
program that creates jobs by funding investments in 
transportation infrastructure by States, local govern-
ments, and transit agencies. 
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(4) TIGER funds projects that will have a sig-
nificant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, 
or a region. 
(5) In distributing grants under TIGER, the 
Secretary of Transportation is required to ensure an 
equitable geographic distribution of funds, a balance 
in addressing the needs of urban and rural areas, 
and investments in a variety of modes of transpor-
tation. 
(6) TIGER received an appropriation of 
$600,000,000 in fiscal year 2014 and an appropria-
tion of $500,000,000 in fiscal year 2015. 
(7) Past appropriations for TIGER are not suf-
ficient to address the need for investments in trans-
portation infrastructure in communities throughout 
the United States as the amounts only fund a small 
fraction of the transportation infrastructure projects 
for which TIGER grant applications have been re-
ceived. 
(8) The President requested an appropriation of 
$1.25 billion for TIGER in fiscal year 2016, as part 
of an expanded TIGER program that will provide 
$7.5 billion for TIGER over 6 years. 
(9) Appropriating $7.5 billion in fiscal year 
2016 for TIGER and allowing the funds to remain 
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