[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6423]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           LET'S PASS THE HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT TRUST FUND BILL

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, once again, House Republican leadership's 
culture of governing crisis to crisis is endangering hundreds of 
thousands of American jobs and thousands of critical construction 
projects across the country.
  There are only 7 legislative days left until the highway and transit 
trust fund expires on May 31, but there is no plan yet to act. 
According to the American Association of State Highway and 
Transportation Officials, 660,000 good-paying construction jobs are 
hanging in the balance; 6,000 critical construction projects across the 
country are also being threatened.
  For too long, we have been stuck in these short-term patches that 
fail to meet the challenges of our Nation's crumbling roads and bridges 
as other nations, our competitors, advance their infrastructure and 
pass us by leaps and bounds.
  We have got to get to work to fixing America's crumbling roads and 
bridges. It is the job of the Congress to do this. We need to do our 
job.
  We continue to wait, as Democrats, for a plan that we can work 
together on to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. It is up to the 
Republican leadership to act, and I am calling upon them to do just 
that.

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