[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5264]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE A BIPARTISAN SOLUTION TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST 
                                  FUND

  (Mr. DELANEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, in less than 40 days, the highway trust 
fund runs out of money, which means 90 percent of the surface 
transportation projects in this country will stop.
  To help Congress appreciate the magnitude of this looming crisis, I 
reached out to my constituents and asked them to give me their stories 
about our infrastructure. We received hundreds of responses. One of 
them was from Magnus in Hagerstown, Maryland, who talks about a major 
highway, Route
I-81, that runs through Hagerstown, which he describes as ``Death 
Valley'' because he feels like he reads a story in the local newspaper 
about someone dying there almost every other week. He also commented 
about how it hurts economic growth for the region, and the region has 
not been able to attract the businesses it needs to grow its economy.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve a bipartisan solution to 
fund the highway trust fund, and we should be working on it now.

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