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I want to applaud you, Chairman DeFazio, for your work last Congress to dramatically increase the CIG program's authorized level of funding.

I want to strongly encourage you to increase the authorized funding for the Capital Investment Grant program.

And that is why our Charlotte Area Transit System, CATS, boldly invested to create our State and region's first light rail transit back in 2007.

Unfortunately, our transportation infrastructure has not kept pace with our rapid growth.

We are now the 15th largest city in the country.

Thank you to Chairman DeFazio, to Ranking Member Graves, and to the distinguished members of this committee for the opportunity to be with you today.

At its core, the FAA must prioritize airplane noise.

In my district, US-74 cuts through Cleveland, Gaston and Rutherford Counties. While each of those counties would benefit from the proposed designation, for Rutherford County the designation is critical to the county's economic…

The highway is also a crucial evacuation route for the southeast of the state in times of severe weather events.

North Carolina's US-74 corridor passes through largely rural regions of the state and is characterized by inconsistent travel speeds, bottlenecks at signaled intersections, and a high occurrence of vehicle accidents.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before the committee today and ask for your support for including this future interstate designation in the upcoming surface reauthorization bill.

I come before the committee today in support of designating U.S. 74 from Columbus, North Carolina, to Kings Mountain, North Carolina, as a future interstate, and to advocate for codifying this designation in the upcoming surface…

In closing, Mr. Chair, I want to thank you and the committee again for the opportunity to advocate for my constituents.

Help is here, no thanks to Senator Richard Burr and Senator Thom Tillis.

We`re going to make sure we have a great moral foundation to stand upon and we`re going to use all of that to create an incredible economy and an incredible country.

The Congressional Black Caucus has said to you over and over again we need greater diversity among your workforce from the top to the bottom, and we need for you to publish the data so the world can see it.

I hope that, if we introduce this legislation, you will not oppose it.

History has shown that you have talked the talk but have failed to walk the walk.