On the recordApril 21, 2015
In less than 40 days, the highway trust fund runs out of money, which means 90 percent of the surface transportation projects in this country will stop. To help Congress appreciate the magnitude of this looming crisis, I reached out to my constituents and asked them to give me their stories about our infrastructure. We received hundreds of responses. One of them was from Magnus in Hagerstown, Maryland, who talks about a major highway, Route I-81, that runs through Hagerstown, which he describes as ``Death Valley'' because he feels like he reads a story in the local newspaper about someone dying there almost every other week. He also commented about how it hurts economic growth for the region, and the region has not been able to attract the businesses it needs to grow its economy. Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve a bipartisan solution to fund the highway trust fund, and we should be working on it now. ____________________
