Evans Votes for Infrastructure Package to Create Jobs, Also Votes to Clear Path for Build Back Better Act

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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3rd) voted Friday evening for a landmark infrastructure bill to create millions of jobs and make long-overdue repairs to the nation's roads, bridges, transit, water and sewer systems. He also voted for a House rule to clear the way to pass the Build Back Better Act in the near future.

The House vote sends the Senate-passed infrastructure bill to the desk of President Biden, who has said he'll sign it.

"I'm happy to vote for this massive new investment in job-creating repairs and upgrades to our transit, roads, bridges, water, sewer and other systems," Evans said. "And I also look forward to passage of the Build Back Better Act, which would be a historic investment in making child care, housing and prescription drugs more affordable. It would also be a historic investment in fighting climate change and would continue the Biden expansion of the Child Tax Credit that I voted for, which is on track to cut child poverty in half."

The infrastructure bill includes $1 billion for Reconnecting Communities, an initiative Evans has co-led, which would help highway-divided neighborhoods like Nicetown, Chinatown and the Delaware River waterfront in Philadelphia. The Build Back Better Act includes another $4 billion for similar programs to help those neighborhoods across the country.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill would provide $550 billion in new federal funding for infrastructure, estimated to add millions of jobs over the next 10 years. It includes:

$39 billion of new investment to modernize transit and improve accessibility for seniors and people with disabilities
$110 billion of new funds for roads, bridges, and related projects; $66 billion for rail, which would include eliminating the Amtrak maintenance backlog and modernizing the Northeast Corridor
$17 billion for ports
$25 billion for airports
$55 billion for clean drinking water systems
$65 billion for broadband internet
$7.5 billion to build out the first-ever national network of electric-vehicle chargers in the United States
Over $50 billion to make communities safer from extreme weather and climate-related disasters and the nation's infrastructure more resilient to the impacts of climate change and cyber-attacks
$21 billion for environmental cleanups
$65 billion to modernize the electric grid

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