Safe Routes to School uses a minuscule portion of overall annual federal Transportation dollars, and has support of parents, kids, and schools, since it gets children on bikes and on foot and off the school bus on their way to the classroom. Unfortunately the latest House transportation bill eviscerates this funding and aims to increase coastal oil drilling massively in states like California, allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and give Congress the authority to approve construction of the Keystone oil pipeline.

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