[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16461]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE ABLE ACT

  (Mr. FLEISCHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEISCHMANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the ABLE Act, with 
over 380 cosponsors.
  It is a wonderful piece of legislation that is going to help American 
families, and there is a key provision of this act which is going to 
fix a broken problem. I came to Congress to fix broken problems with 
commonsense solutions.
  Earlier this year, this body, the Senate, and the President passed 
the water resources bill, which fundamentally fixed the problem of the 
inland waterway trust fund, but it was still underfunded.
  I want to thank colleagues on both sides of this House for working 
with me--for working hard--to get an industry-supported user fee of 9 
cents. What that will mean is that locks like the Chickamauga Lock in 
Chattanooga, which is near and dear to our district, and locks all over 
this country will now be able to be properly funded in the way in which 
they were intended.
  Together, we can work hard to fix these problems. I urge the support 
of the ABLE Act, and I thank my colleagues for working hard to support 
this industry-supported user fee.

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