[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 207 (Wednesday, December 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 RECOVERING, REBUILDING, RESTORING HOPE

  (Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER. Madam Speaker, tonight, I am honored to stand 
before you to speak on the passage of one of the most transformational 
pieces of legislation in a generation signed into law, the bipartisan 
infrastructure bill.
  In my State of Delaware, this bill will invest $1.2 billion for 
highway repair, over $200 million for bridge repair, and over $100 
million to expand internet access, and $300 million to expand access to 
clean drinking water. But it is more than just concrete and fiber-optic 
cables, it is about the faces and places that will benefit from this 
bill.
  In my State, I think of the students, I think of the farmers, I think 
of the union workers whose lives will be improved and whose communities 
will forever change. It is about recovering, rebuilding, and restoring 
hope.
  Madam Speaker, we have more work to do, but make no mistake--with the 
bipartisan infrastructure law--we are now on the road to recovery and 
on the road to building back better.

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