Anthony Foxx: “America is in a race, not just against our global competitors, but against the high standards of innovation and progress…”

I stand with you 100 percent in urging Congress to provide adequate funding to build transit system capacity to meet growing ridership demand.

Our bill puts fully $28.6 billion over 6 years into a passenger rail system so that there is multiyear certainty that allows Amtrak to actually plan.

We have growing freight activity in this country. And without substantial, new, more robust investments in infrastructure, we're going to find ourselves more bottlenecks, more congestion and more delays.

America's transportation infrastructure is a national asset we all share--and it needs our attention.