[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 165 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  REBUILD OUR NATION'S INFRASTRUCTURE

  (Mr. COSTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, next week we can make bold investments in our 
Nation, helping families, workers, and communities across the country, 
by passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
  Everyone, no matter where you live, deserves access to modern, 
dependable infrastructure and transportation, water, and so many other 
efforts that improve our quality of life.
  We are living off the investments our parents and grandparents made a 
generation ago. As an example, in my district, in California's San 
Joaquin Valley, residents in the rural community of Dos Palos were 
living with an aging water infrastructure system. Last summer, in the 
midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, problems with this decades-old water 
treatment plant left them without clean drinking water for 3 days. 
Residents and businesses suffered. That is simply unacceptable wherever 
you live in America.
  I was able to work with Assemblymember Adam Gray, and we were able to 
help secure State and Federal funding to construct a new treatment 
plant, but this piecemeal way of fixing our infrastructure is not the 
way to go.
  We must pass transformative pieces of legislation to rebuild our 
Nation's infrastructure, for water, for transportation, broadband, and 
so many another investments that are deeply and sorely needed. Making 
life better for all Americans should be the priority of everyone who 
serves in Congress.
  The health and development of our communities and the economy depends 
upon this vote. I urge your support.

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