[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 74 (Thursday, May 14, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H2971]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HIGHWAY TRUST FUND

  (Ms. ESTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, there are only 5 legislative days until the 
highway trust fund expires. Once again, this House is governing by 
crisis and needlessly endangering 660,000 good-paying jobs. This needs 
to stop.
  The American Society of Civil Engineers gives America's 
infrastructure an overall grade of D-minus. Mr. Speaker, 35 percent of 
my State of Connecticut's bridges are structurally deficient, 
functionally obsolete, or both.
  We shouldn't wait until the trains derail, the bridges collapse, or 
projects shut down before we fund our infrastructure in this Nation. A 
great nation does not respond to crisis with duct tape. A great nation 
leads by bold action.
  I join Democrats and Republicans who are ready to work together to 
pass a long-term, sustainable, robust highway and infrastructure bill. 
The time is act is now.

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