[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 207 (Wednesday, December 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6845-H6846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THE BENEFITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 4, 2021, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright) is 
recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.


                             General Leave

  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks 
and include extraneous material on the subject of my Special Order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Madam Speaker, together with President Biden, this 
country has already created 5.6 million jobs this year alone. Growth is 
up, wages are up, and unemployment is at a figure that is at a low of a 
couple of generations at this point.
  And in the middle of all of this, Democrats had the temerity to enact 
the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a historic 
occasion.
  The infrastructure law the Democrats delivered will create millions 
more good-paying jobs--American jobs, union jobs, family-sustaining 
jobs, jobs that cannot be outsourced or sent offshore.
  The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was signed 
into law the week before last makes the largest Federal investment in 
public transit ever. It makes the largest Federal investment in 
passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak. It makes the single 
largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the 
Interstate Highway System. It makes the largest investment in clean 
drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in American history. It 
ensures

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that every American has access to reliable high-speed internet. It 
helps tackle the climate crisis by making the largest investment in 
clean energy transmission and electric vehicle infrastructure in 
history.
  Madam Speaker, rebuilding our infrastructure means shoring up our 
American middle class. It means jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. 
It means, maybe most importantly to a lot of us, honoring the work and 
the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, those folks that Tom Brokaw 
called the Greatest Generation. They came back from World War II, from 
defeating fascism in the Pacific and the Atlantic, and they came back 
after making all of those sacrifices, suffering all of those hardships 
and deprivations and what did they do? They immediately set to work 
sacrificing more for their children and their grandchildren, for us. 
They sacrificed for us, and they didn't stop sacrificing.

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