Dominican-born New York Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) was appointed to serve on the influential House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Espaillat has consistently given priority to transportation and transit in his work for New York. He has called transportation and transit “the lifeblood of our city.”
In this position, Espaillat will have jurisdiction over the agencies, programs that finance and regulate transportation, including national public transport, railroad, highway, bridges and other transportation systems.
In his first remarks after the appointment, he highlighted that New York has the largest public transport system in the United States.
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El Nacional
22 January 2019
