Eighty years ago the Public Works Administration bill was signed by President Roosevelt and passed by the Congress.

I want to thank everyone for being here this morning to discuss the critical need to strengthen and improve our nation's infrastructure system.

We have people right up here, including Representative Delaney, and Senator Warner, and others who are devoted to getting something done on the infrastructure bank part of this.

we truly believe that you have to invest at the same time; that it is not exclusive.

A bridge shouldn't just fall down in the middle of America, not a bridge six blocks from my house.

I think people are open to looking at it again, but the rate has to be right so it actually brings in the funding that we would need.

Congress was willing to come together on that last two-year transportation bill.

I thank the gentleman. I thank my colleague and friend from Colorado (Mr. Polis). I think that congressional intent has been absolutely clear and is, in fact, in law. It is astonishing to me that we have to be down here on the floor this…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of this amendment. As chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, as a retired Marine…

Mr. Chairman, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Frelinghuysen).

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

pay-for-delay agreements can really hurt our Nation's seniors.

I'm proud to sponsor the Klobuchar-Grassley Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act.

One of the most common concerns I hear from seniors is that prescription drugs cost too much.

What our bill would do is fairly simple. It provides subsequent filers with an exclusivity period if the first filer relinquishes that privilege in a pay-for-delay deal.

When I was at the State fair in 2009 during the heated debate about the ACA, a woman in her 60s came up to me and she said, at my age everything's pre-existing.

the lack of availability of generic drugs... is due... to pay-for-delay settlements.

My Fair Generics Act would make the exclusivity privilege available to subsequent filers if the first filer bargained the privilege away in a pay-for-delay settlement.