Dave Camp: “At the end of this month, States across the country will be forced to put road construction on hold if Congress cannot…”

“At the end of this month, States across the country will be forced to put road construction on hold if Congress cannot address the highway trust fund. At risk are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the construction industry. A strong infrastructure is central to commerce, and at a time when millions of Americans are packing their bags to take a vacation or just traveling to work, we must ensure that projects can be completed so that the roads, bridges, and highways they travel on are modernized and safe. The bill before us today, H.R. 5021, will provide enough funding to get us through May 21, 2015, giving States the ability to complete projects. This bill is the only package with all provisions having a proven history of getting big bipartisan votes in both the House and the Senate. The three provisions--pension smoothing, custom user fees, and leaking underground storage tanks--have all been used previously in bills that received strong bipartisan votes. Pension smoothing and LUST were included in the last bipartisan highway trust fund legislation. These are policies everyone is familiar with. They are policies that will provide the funding we need, and they are the only policies that will pass both the House and Senate in time to fund our highways after the end of this month.…”