Infrastructure

Energy infrastructure is an issue of promiscuity. I mean, you have to be permissive to allow the carbon economy to grow and lift more billions of lives out of poverty.

How would making these programs mandatory or formula-based impact planning for large-scale projects?

I am proud to say that my district has received over $11 billion in discretionary grants from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The safest crossing is one that doesn't exist.

The actual increase of the formula distribution in IIJA was not even enough to fully cover the cost of inflation.

I know a lot of folks who were excited about the infrastructure bill and the suggestion that it was going to provide increased funds for things like roads and bridges.

Is there the infrastructure to support it?

I hope that communities will consider using funds to make safety improvements like the Safe Streets, like eliminating crossings, instead of just adding more lanes to highways.

Of course, we would have a lot fewer road fatalities and traffic deaths in America if we had a better rail system.

Everyone deserves access to clean water, but we know well in Michigan that aging infrastructure has not been replaced at the rate that it needs to.

I have helped introduce the Rebuilding Rural Roads Act, which Congressman Finstad from southern Minnesota and I lead.

We got as part of building a super-speed train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, which will certainly help with our tourism economy

I helped create two programs, Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhood Access and Equity, to begin redressing some of these harms.

I never ran into a State DOT director who didn't want more formula money.

DOT has risen to the occasion to get this money into the hands of communities by issuing nearly 90 Notices of Funding Opportunity.

The law provides record-breaking funding for critical infrastructure projects.

Thank you, Chair Graves, for holding this hearing to explore how competitive grant funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are providing opportunities and delivering results.

This represents 30 percent of the total funding provided by the IIJA.