it is my honor and privilege this evening to join with my fellow 9 Senators of the G-10 who have been working together for months now, along with an additional 12 colleagues, who together--the 22 of us Senators--have worked long and hard with each other and with the White House to introduce this evening the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. We know that this has been a long and sometimes difficult process, but we are proud this evening to announce this legislation, and we look forward, very much, to working with our colleagues in a collaborative and open way over the coming days to work through this historic investment in infrastructure in our country and to come to agreement in the U.S. Senate to move forward with this historic piece of legislation. Now, I know that many of my colleagues will talk about some of the virtues of the legislation and the great things that it will do for the States that we all are proud to represent, the States that all of us Senators represent across this country. But what I would like to direct my brief remarks to this evening are not the details of this legislative text--though they are significant, and I think they are very meaningful and will have an impact on the daily lives of Americans. What I would like to speak about is the very process.…
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