Clay Higgins

Since the creation of the Community Development Block Grant in 1974----

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

The United States Postal Service continues to try to fix themselves financially with service cuts that will undermine the agency's viability, not strengthen it. I am pleased to be a cosponsor of my colleague Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro's…

It cuts infrastructure spending by $5.7 trillion over 10 years. {time} 1930 It doesn't do anything to the defense spending. So while we, the advocates of increased infrastructure spending, want to nation-build here at home, in America, the…

Today we will consider a House Republican message bill that makes a point about spending and budget deficits. The problem is all those who support this bill about spending did all the spending: two tax cuts that gave us the worst period of…

That's right. And according to Transportation for America, there are 69,000 structurally deficient bridges in the United States. There are over 2,000 structurally deficient bridges in New York State. There are 99 structurally deficient…

Well, you pay for it as you pay for transportation improvements at the local, State, and Federal level. You issue debt to finance the life of the project.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''. Page 32, line 18, after the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 37, line 18, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $58,000,000)''. Page 55, line 2, after the dollar amount…

The accident that happened on April 20, 2010 was an economic, environmental, and human tragedy that cannot be minimized or forgotten.

I am certain that everyone knows by now approximately 50 people lost their lives in a tragic plane crash last night in western New York. This crash occurred in the hometown of our colleague, Chris Lee, who has left Washington to assist in…

Just let me say in closing, Tim Russert was the voice to a Nation and to the world with a distinct inflection of that of Buffalo, imbued with exuberance and tempered with a love of family and community and country. With that, I would ask…