[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REVIEWING DEMOCRATS' INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, with so much talk about infrastructure in 
the air lately, let's do a quick review.
  The last sizeable infrastructure bill was done in 2015, to the cost 
of about $300 billion. Now, what we see is a so-called infrastructure 
plan put out by the Biden administration and the House and Senate 
Democrats nine times that size, $2.7 trillion.
  We can probably find that much infrastructure to do, except there is 
a whole lot in this bill that is not infrastructure. Much is social 
spending and other things that might be good in a different bill, but 
not this bill.
  Also, in order to pay for it, they would seek to dismantle the 2017 
tax reforms that did so much to promote and boost our economy and bring 
jobs back to the United States. It unleashed record growth. Instead, we 
would hurt that economy by what is in the plan.
  How about, instead of tax hikes to cover what is essentially 
socialist spending tucked into a bill being labeled as infrastructure, 
let's focus on the work needing done: highways, bridges, levees, dams 
for water storage, and broadband. These are the things people need and 
can actively use. What they don't need are choking taxes that harm our 
economy.

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