Legislative Contacts

Contact the Senators Responsible for the Act

Senator Brown

713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2315
Website Contact

Senator Hutchison

284 Russel Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-4304
(202) 224-5922
Website Contact

Please also write to any of your State Senators or Represntatives that also serve on these 5 committees

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chair
531 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Telephone: (202) 224-6472
Fax: (202) 224-7665
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

House of Representative Energy and Environment Subcommitee

Representative Brian Baird (D-WA), Chair
2350 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Telephone: (202) 225-3536
Fax: (202) 225-3478
Energy and Environment Subcommitee

U.S. Congress Small Business Committee

Representative Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY),Chair
2466 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Telephone: (202) 225-2361
Fax: (202) 226-0327
Link to Small Business Committe

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Representative James L. Oberstar (D-MN),Chair
2365 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Telephone: (202) 225-6211
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Representative Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), Chair
2354 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Telephone: (202) 225-4365
Fax: (202) 225-0816
Committee on Ways and Means

Talking Points

When writing to your Congress\Senate person(s) include some of the points listed below:

Motor coach safety is a serious concern for anyone who relies on and uses this growing and affordable mode of transportation.
More needs to be done to protect passengers who ride on motor coaches. I urge you to support improving the safety of motor coaches by co-sponsoring legislation, S. 2326, the Motor coach Enhanced Safety Act of 2007, introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX).
Last year, there were more than 630 million passengers taking trips in motor coaches, almost as many passenger trips as U.S. commercial airlines carried that year.
Motor coaches are the passenger airliners of America’s highways, carrying up to 59 passengers for a given trip. When a crash occurs it can be catastrophic and deadly.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has investigated and reported on major motor coach crashes involving scores of deaths and hundreds of injuries. The NTSB investigations have resulted in numerous recommendations to the U.S. Department of Transportation to take action to improve the safety of the motor coach, the driver and the motor coach company. Unfortunately, these recommendations have languished or been ignored for many years.
Deaths and injuries due to motor coach crashes can be prevented. Enactment of this legislation will result in better protection of passengers by requiring seat belts, rollover and ejection prevention technologies, testing and improvement of motor coach interiors to reduce flammability and toxicity in case of a fire, more frequent safety inspections of motor coach operators, and better motor coach driver training and licensing.
Legislation is needed to correct dangerous and deadly motor coach safety problems. Congress needs to act now and pass S.2326.

(Note: If you have personally been involved in a motor coach crash or have direct experience with a motor coach safety problem you should relay that in your letter to your Senator).

Motorcoach Safety NOW!

Motorcoach safety NOW!