[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 24, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AMERICANS DESERVE A BETTER DEAL

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, New Jersey's 10th Congressional District is 
the home of the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, the largest port 
on the East Coast; Newark Liberty International Airport; Amtrak's 
Boston-to-D.C. line, the center of that line; I-95; and Route 78 going 
west in this great Nation. Transportation infrastructure drives my 
district's economic growth and the economy of States throughout the 
Northeast.
  The White House and congressional Republicans have spent the past 
year promising to rebuild America's infrastructure, but all the 
American people have gotten is a raw deal that would sell off America's 
infrastructure to Wall Street and leave Main Street to fill in all the 
potholes.
  The people who live in my district deserve a better deal than they 
are getting under this majority and this administration.
  My Democratic colleagues and I have a real plan to rebuild America. 
It is five times as big as the puny proposal by the White House. 
Democrats want to create 16 million new good-paying jobs, build 
bridges, clear roads, broadband, schools, water infrastructure, energy 
grids, and transit. That is what my constituents and the American 
people deserve.

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