Staff report

SPENCER — Two congressmen will be in town today for a meeting with Mayor Jim Gobbel and a tour of the N.C. Transportation Museum.

Reps. Ted Budd, R-13, and Richard Hudson, R-8, are scheduled to tour the Transportation Museum at 11:30 a.m. and meet with Gobbel afterward to discuss economic development. Each congressmen represents part of Spencer in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“I’m excited to visit again to admire our strong transportation history, as well as have an important conversation about economic development and ways to improve our nation’s transportation network,” Hudson said in a news release.

Budd said North Carolina has a legacy of building a first-class transportation network. The museum in Spencer is a monument to that history, he said.

“Infrastructure policy is more than steel, concrete and government spending. It’s how we connect people and communities together,” Budd said in a news release.

Today’s visit comes during Congress’ August recess.

It is the third publicly announced visit to Rowan County in two weeks for Hudson. It’s Budd’s second visit.

Today’s visit to the Transportation Museum is not open to the general public, according to a spokesman for Budd.