Investing in A New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman DeFazio for yielding and for all his work on this important legislation.

Mr. Speaker, we must fix our crumbling roads and bridges, expand broadband--which is the infrastructure of the 21st century--and give our communities the tools to build resilience against natural disasters.

This is something my communities across Minnesota's Second Congressional District are united on. They partnered with me to help shape the surface transportation provisions in this bill, which include investments in our infrastructure that would put Minnesotans to work on critical infrastructure needs like:

Adding a lane on I-35 in Lakeville;

Improving Highway 52 in Goodhue County; and

Completing outstanding projects on Trunk Highway 13 in Savage.

I am proud that today's legislation includes two bills that I have authored guided by mayors, small business owners, and farmers across my District--the Local Water Protection Act and the Resilience Revolving Loan Fund Act--to keep pollutants out of our snow and storm runoff. This bill will give our communities the resilience they need before those natural disasters hit.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to set partisan politics aside and stand up for the infrastructure investment for our communities.

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