Statements about Transportation
Says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. without nonstop flights to Europe.
Says Austin trains are "full" at rush hour and "packed" for special events.
Says about 25 Texas cities and 39 states have banned texting while driving.
Says he "is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at MoPac and William Cannon."
Says she’s never said "don’t build" Texas 45 Southwest.
Says he "passed" eight measures, including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar "sanctuary" cities in Texas.
Says Jeff Wentworth, bending the rules, "has used $211,743.96 in campaign contributions to lease luxury cars."
Says "over 40 percent of recent county bonds are for Precinct One, northeast Travis County," because he "is quick to identify projects that help make the East Side a desirable place to live."
Says Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac.
Says bus riders subsidize the "expensive, romanticized" Leander-to-Austin train.
"Invested $90 million in traffic fixes without raising taxes."
Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road.
Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.
Says the federal government threatened to impose a no-fly zone in Texas if state legislators bar airport security officials from performing pat-downs.
"Every time you buy an airline ticket, the federal government runs a background check on you."
During "the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen, Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a five-star hotel on a trip costing nearly $10,000 per person."
"Taxpayers even footed the bill for Perry’s trip to a bachelor party in Las Vegas."
"The Texas Department of Transportation... misplaced a billion dollars."
“The Trans-Texas Corridor is dead.”
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