Honorable Jack Reed
United States Senator, Rhode Island, Democrat
Senator Reed was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He served in the Rhode Island Senate from 1985 to 1990, and represented the Second District of Rhode Island in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 1996. He is a member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and the Special Committee on Aging. The following statement is from the Senate floor debate of March 4, 1998, on the Lautenberg-DeWine amendment to S. 1173, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), to establish a national standard prohibiting driving by individuals…
