Congressman Rodney Davis is a believer in mass transit and he put his money and his posterior where his mouth is, taking a seat in buses across the 13th Congressional District this week. Davis says mass transit is an underrated resource in area much smaller than the nation's largest cities like Chicago.

Davis acknowledges some Republican colleagues may have a different view of things...
 

He is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Davis and his colleagues recently crafted a five-year surface transportation bill. The bill included provisions pushed by Davis to provide greater local control over federal transportation dollars awarded to states and an increase in state transit dollars.