[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 29, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E714]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    SUPPORTING INVEST IN AMERICA ACT

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                          HON. ROSA L. DeLAURO

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 29, 2021

  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, today, I rise in support of the INVEST in 
America Act, which will create good paying jobs to rebuild and re-
imagine America's surface transportation infrastructure by revitalizing 
our existing roads and bridges and making investments in passenger 
rail, public transit, cycling and walking infrastructure, and zero-
emission options--while creating safer, more connected communities.
  After decades of disinvestment and four years of failed 
`Infrastructure Weeks,' I believe that now is the time to make 
desperately needed investments to rebuild our nation.
  According to the 2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure 
assessment by the American Society of Civil Engineers, our nation's 
infrastructure receives the grade: C-. A continued underinvestment in 
our infrastructure at current rates will cost $10 trillion in GDP, more 
than $3 million jobs, and $2.4 trillion in exports over the next 20 
years.
  We cannot wait. It is time to invest, reimagine, and revitalize a new 
American economy by building the architecture of our nation's future. 
We need transformative plans like the INVEST in America Act and the 
American Jobs Plan, a once-in-a-century capital investment in America 
that will create millions of good-paying-jobs and rebuild our country's 
infrastructure, including high-speed rail.
  We need to recognize the importance of investing in high-speed rail. 
And I will continue working for more rail investment and ensure that 
federal dollars fund high-speed rail projects across this country--
including projects in Connecticut, which total almost $10B in CT's new 
initiative, TIME FOR CT and along the Northeast Corridor which 
currently has $117B of needed investment through their project titled 
CONNECT2035 and New Haven's Downtown Crossing, which I was proud to 
help secure $20 million for New Haven to reconnect its downtown with 
both the outlying neighborhoods and the train station--helping the 
local business community flourish.
  We can make opportunity real for millions with good-paying jobs. And, 
we can strengthen our economy. So, let us move boldly. And let us start 
rebuilding America.

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