[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1607]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE TRANSPORTATION BILL

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Madam Speaker, across the Nation, Americans are calling for 
Congress to take immediate action to create new jobs. Instead of 
working on a bipartisan agenda to create jobs, Republicans are moving a 
transportation bill that slashes the infrastructure funding and 
destroys jobs.
  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has called this bill the worst 
transportation bill he has ever seen. The Republican transportation 
bill would eliminate 550,000 American jobs, cut highway investment in 
45 States, and bankrupt the highway trust fund by $98 billion.
  Congress must get serious about working together to solve the 
problems our Nation is facing. It just can't be ``my way or the 
highway.'' Let's do a jobs bill that will create jobs for the American 
people.

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