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Senior members and staff on the respective authorizing and appropriations committees are critical to the MCC's long term success. Bill and Levon will reach-out to their respective contacts and networks on Capitol Hill beyond the Colorado delegation. US 36 Mayors and Commissioners Six: Month Work Program June 5, 2008 OBJECTIVES Position US 36 for significant funding in the next Highway Reauthorization Continue cultivating relationships with key players on behalf of US 36 MCC Inform MCC Members of Relevant and Important "DC" Information as it develops or unfolds. Propose six month (June -November) work plan in support of US36 June: Congressional Summary • Traditionally, Congress spends much of the month of June working on Appropriations bills. Because the month has no Congressional recesses, it is a month in which Congress attempts to get a significant amount of their work done prior to leaving for the July 4`h holiday. When Congress returns the week of June 2, it will begin a stretch of four legislative weeks before its week- long Independence Day recess. When the Senate reconvenes on June 2, it will hold a procedural vote in an attempt to bring up S. 3036, a modified version of S. 2191, Arnerica's Climate Security Act, the cap-and- trade climate change legislation sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). The House has aSenate-modified version of the Fiscal Year 2008 supplemental appropriations bill on its agenda, as well as a final vote on the FY09 budget resolution. We would expect that much of Congresses efforts during June will surround completing work on the Supplemental Iraq and Afghanistan Appropriations bill as well as beginning work on what will be a very tortured FY 2009 appropriations process. June Work Plan: Attend Congressional hearings that are relevant to reauthorization. o June 5, 2008, 10:00AM, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Maintaining our Nation's Highway and Transit o June 10, 2008, 10: 00 AM, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Financing Infrastructure Investments Monitor legislation that House and Senate infrastructure committees develop and provide to the MCC guidance and analysis on the impacts to US36 and if the MCC should engage in support or opposition. For example;: HR 6052 Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 2008. Provides 100% federal share for projects that involve acquiring clean fuel or alternative fuel vehicle-related equipment or facilities as well asend-of-the-line parking facilities. Continue meet and dialogue with key committee (majority and minority) staff about US36 and invite them to CO to visit the project. Work with Chairman Oberstar's staff on the August visit to CO during the convention. 10 C