Investing in A New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act
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Mrs. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act.
I want to thank Speaker Pelosi and Chairman DeFazio for their outstanding leadership.
The time is now to rebuild America. Investing in our Nation's infrastructure is bigger than just mending our roads, bridges, and airports. It will mean a boost to future manufacturing. It will create good-paying jobs.
It will transition our Nation to a clean energy economy and will build the infrastructure for those electric vehicles we need to put on the road to be globally competitive and put us on track for robust future growth.
Over the next decade, we have to seize this opportunity, and we must seize it for every community across the country, urban, suburban, and rural alike.
This bill is designed to rebuild communities that are smarter, safer, and made to last. And with American grit and ingenuity, we can accomplish this and more.
I am proud that a number of provisions that I have championed are included in this legislation.
I urge all of my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to support this important bill and come together. The American people have sent us here to find common ground on the toughest issues for all future generations to prosper.
And as my Governor says: ``Fix the damn roads.''
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Mrs. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this en bloc, which includes an important amendment that I have championed that would establish a clean energy and sustainability accelerator to both meet the climate crisis head-on, while building the infrastructure of tomorrow.
As an independent nonprofit that is capitalized with $20 billion of Federal funds spread over a 6-year period, the accelerator will help bolster and expand a robust clean energy workforce, create jobs, deploy emissions reduction technologies, and invest in low-carbon infrastructure projects nationwide.
It would provide crucial seed investment to build clean energy infrastructure that will put millions back to work, strengthen communities, improve public health for generations, while reducing pollution, lowering energy costs, and specifically reducing harmful greenhouse emissions.
I am proud to lead this amendment, and I thank Chairman Pallone, the leadership of the House, and the Energy and Commerce Committee staff for all the work they have done to get it here.
I urge my colleagues to support this bill.
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