[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8507]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HIGHWAY TRUST FUND AND 
                                 T-HUD

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share that the Nation is 
desperate for a long-term, 21st century transportation and 
infrastructure system that provides sustainable solutions to our 
Nation's infrastructure crisis. We can't kick the can down the road 
anymore. Patching our roads and our budgets will not reverse the 
serious decline in our infrastructure.
  In April of this year, I joined elected officials and community 
leaders in my district at the Central Ohio Transit Authority's new 
Spring Street Terminal to ``Stand Up 4 Transportation'' and call for a 
long-term funding bill.
  Short-term patches like the one that was rushed through Congress last 
month fail to meet the challenge of our Nation's crumbling roads and 
bridges--even as other nations advance their infrastructure by leaps 
and bounds.
  Mr. Speaker, without meaningful long-term transportation bills that 
provide forward thinking and predictable investments for our 
infrastructure, we are slamming the brakes on the economy and jobs.
  It is time to act. The clock is ticking.

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