[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6550]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the United States Department of 
Transportation released a proposal to spend $302 billion over the next 
4 years on highway and transportation projects in our Nation. Though 
this is an improvement on the current pathetically weak investment in 
roads and bridges, this is not nearly enough to adequately address 
America's broken infrastructure.
  Mr. Speaker, the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the United 
States infrastructure a D grade and predicts that an additional $3.6 
trillion investment will be needed by 2020 just to bring America's 
infrastructure to a state of good repair.
  Making a real investment, going beyond the President's proposal, is 
not only an investment in our Nation, it is also an important 
investment in our Nation's people. Nation-building right here at home 
can't be outsourced and could create millions of jobs and dramatically 
lower the unemployment rate.
  I urge my colleagues to support large-scale investment in America, 
supporting American people and American businesses.

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