2022: Fitzpatrick Voted For An Amendment That Shifted $1 Million For
Rebuilding American Infrastructure With Sustainability And Equity
Grants, Intended To Prioritize Grant Funding For Green Infrastructure
That Decarbonizes And Electrifies Ground Transportation. In July 2022,
according to Congressional Quarterly, Fitzpatrick voted for en bloc
amendments no. 3 to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023, which would, in part,
"increase and decrease funding by $1 million for Rebuilding American
Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grants, intended
to emphasize the prioritization of grant funding toward green
infrastructure projects that will decarbonize and electrify the U.S.
ground transportation sector; and increase and decrease Agriculture
Research Service funding by $1.5 million intended to increase funding
for alternative protein research." The vote was on the adoption of
amendments. The House adopted the amendments by a vote 225-201. [House
Vote 369, 7/19/22;
Congressional Quarterly,
7/19/22; Congressional Actions,
H.Amdt.
295;
Congressional Actions, H.R.
8294]