Invest in America Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I want to thank the majority leader and all of my colleagues. I want to mention two other things briefly.

No. 1, Senator Tester, who has been intimately involved in this effort, could not be here with us to tonight, but he was with us all day and has been up with us for weeks and weeks.

I do think it is really important--the base bill that we will be negotiating will be the EPW bill. That committee is chaired by Tom Carper from Delaware. He has a lifetime record, from the House to his time as Governor, to his time in the Senate, of always working in a bipartisan fashion. He has spent literally decades on infrastructure. He will be carrying the ball for the majority on this. We support him, and we commend him, and we wouldn't be here if he hadn't put together the kind of base bill that we were then able to build upon.

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