[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7957]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          PASS A LONG-TERM HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT TRUST FUND BILL

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, Michigan, of all States, knows that we need 
to fix our crumbling roads and bridges if we are going to remain 
competitive as a nation.
  It is long past time, long overdue, for this Congress to rebuild our 
infrastructure, to pass legislation to fully fund, on an extended 
basis, the highway and transit trust fund bill. Unfortunately, instead 
of working on a big infrastructure bill, last month Congress passed a 
mere 2-month extension, an extension that gets us no further in 
repairing our Nation's crumbling infrastructure.
  Mr. Speaker, my constituents are fed up with more delays instead of 
real action on road funding. No city and no State is going to move 
forward on major projects because Congress extended this fund by 60 
days.
  No more temporary extensions. No more delays. Let's get to work on a 
bipartisan, long-term plan to invest in our Nation's roads, our 
bridges, and our ports. We have to believe in ourselves. We have to bet 
on the American worker and on American business. If we invest in 
infrastructure, they will pay us back with productivity.

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