Oregon’s bike-obsessed congressman is at it again. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat, is petitioning his colleagues to ask the Obama administration to handicap state and local transportation planning decisions to encourage… you guessed it, bicycle use.

He doesn’t say it outright, but does he need to? The man wears a bicycle pin on the lapel of his suit on the floor of the House of Representatives! In a letter to his House colleagues, Blumenauer writes: