[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 7040-7041]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK

  (Mr. WESTERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Speaker, with this being National Infrastructure 
Week, I want to call attention to the crisis facing the Federal highway 
trust fund.
  In my home State of Arkansas, the highway and transportation 
department has canceled several projects due

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to the depletion of the trust fund. It is vital that we find a solution 
to this crisis that finances the trust fund for the long term and keeps 
our roads and highways safe for travel and commerce.
  This is why, next week, I plan to file legislation to plug the $15 
billion deficit in the trust fund without raising taxes. It will be 
commonsense legislation that Members on both sides of the aisle should 
get behind in order to prioritize funding for our critical 
infrastructure construction and maintenance and to avoid these crisis 
deadlines in the future.

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