Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) held a press conference with Houston METRO to highlight $5,000,000 in federal funding that she secured through congressional appropriations for Houston METRO’s Westheimer BOOST Project.  Houston METRO Board Chair Sanjay Ramabhadran, Houston METRO President Tom Lambert, Westchase District Representative Jim Murphy, and Montrose Tax Increment… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) reintroduced the Broadband Incentives for Communities Act, which creates a grant program to provide local and state governments with the resources to facilitate, modernize, and streamline broadband upgrades and deployment.  “Broadband infrastructure is essential infrastructure,” said Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher.  “The… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced that the City of Houston will receive $552,160 in federal funding through the Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) discretionary grant program—a program established in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—for the Reconnecting Communities: Gulfton and Beyond Study.  The grant will fund a 12-month study and… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (TX-7) and officials from Houston Metro announced Wednesday a $5 million award from the federal government to the Metro Boost Project. The grant comes as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which President Biden signed into law in December. The bill allocates $800 billion in non-defense related appropriations, including $542 million in Transit… Read more »

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County will receive $5 million in federal grants to make improvements to its Westheimer Road corridor bus route. METRO officials will celebrate the award at a Feb. 22 news conference with U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, who recommended the project for federal funding. The funding will help METRO implement its BOOST corridor treatment, which… Read more »

Yesterday, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) attended the Buffalo Speedway Project Ribbon Cutting with West University Place Mayor Susan Sample, City Council Members and other community leaders.  The project replaced the road surface on Buffalo Speedway from Bissonnet to Bellaire and made major drainage improvements.  During the ribbon cutting, Congresswoman Fletcher… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted for the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, a bipartisan government funding bill that funds essential programs, addresses many of the challenges our country faces, and provides more than $31.1 million for fifteen local projects that Congresswoman Fletcher requested through the Community Funded Projects process.  The… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s (TX-07) Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects (HELP) Act, H.R. 1917, which eliminates unnecessary bureaucratic delays to starting recovery projects by allowing certain eligible disaster mitigation projects to begin without the risk of losing potential federal funds, passed the House of Representatives for a second time,… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s (TX-07) and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano’s (CA-41) Advancing Uniform Transportation Opportunities (AUTO) for Veterans Act, H.R. 3304, passed the House.  This bill expands the eligibility for disabled veterans to obtain vehicles modified for their disabilities. “In Houston and in communities across the… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) welcomed Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to Houston to highlight major infrastructure projects in Houston funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).  Congresswoman Fletcher, Secretary Buttigieg, and other elected officials toured Houston’s METRORail and learned about major improvements coming to the… Read more »