[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9442-9443]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND JOB TRAINING

  (Mr. COSTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express the importance of 
investing in our Nation's infrastructure. This is all about the future 
economy of this Nation and jobs, jobs, and jobs.
  Today, we are living off the investments that our parents and our 
grandparents made generations ago. Let me give you an example of what 
we are trying to do in California.
  A high-speed rail project is a great example of how you invest in the 
future. This project in California will create 20,000 jobs annually for 
the next 5 years, a fact important not only to California, but my 
district, which is economically challenged.
  Workforce investment boards in my district and throughout the valley 
have dedicated resources to making sure that the local workforce is 
ready to build. Apprenticeship programs like these connect 
disadvantaged workers with good-paying jobs and boost the valley's 
economy.
  The California high-speed rail project, which combines Federal,

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State, and private sector investments, will ensure that our State 
transportation infrastructure is fit for the 21st century.
  Here in our Nation's Capital, we need to provide the long-term 
funding for infrastructure across the Nation. That is what we need to 
do: to invest in our water projects and invest in our transportation 
projects. That is what we need for jobs in the 21st century.

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