Providing for Consideration of H.R. 5, Protecting Access to Healthcare Act
Floor Speech
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Ms. RICHARDSON. I thank the gentleman for yielding so that I might speak to the House companion bill to MAP 21, or H.R. 14, of which I'm a cosponsor.
MAP 21, which we call H.R. 14 going forward, will generate jobs, repair roads and bridges, and invest in our infrastructure. This surface transportation authorization bill passed by the Senate with a majority and with bipartisan support.
I come before you today to urge my colleagues to bring this bill forward, H.R. 14, so that we might establish some consistency, unlike what we saw with the FAA reauthorization, consistency for States, for companies, for workers, for projects that need to get done. This bill will maintain current funding levels for highways and public transportation; it will consolidate and streamline highway programs; and will establish a much-needed national freight program, which is something I've been advocating for my entire time in Congress.
This bill will authorize $1 billion for projects of national significance, which many of us feel in our own particular districts.
H.R. 14 also improves safety, institutes performance measures, and improves accountability for transportation infrastructure investments.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I yield the gen tle lady an additional 30 seconds.
Ms. RICHARDSON. Now is the time for swift action by this House on a bipartisan Senate bill that will create and save at least 132,000 jobs in my area alone.
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