[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 21, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H2323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE A BIPARTISAN SOLUTION TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST 
                                  FUND

  (Mr. DELANEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, in less than 40 days, the highway trust 
fund runs out of money, which means 90 percent of the surface 
transportation projects in this country will stop.
  To help Congress appreciate the magnitude of this looming crisis, I 
reached out to my constituents and asked them to give me their stories 
about our infrastructure. We received hundreds of responses. One of 
them was from Magnus in Hagerstown, Maryland, who talks about a major 
highway, Route I-81, that runs through Hagerstown, which he describes 
as ``Death Valley'' because he feels like he reads a story in the local 
newspaper about someone dying there almost every other week. He also 
commented about how it hurts economic growth for the region, and the 
region has not been able to attract the businesses it needs to grow its 
economy.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve a bipartisan solution to 
fund the highway trust fund, and we should be working on it now.

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