Brian Higgins

We will see economic growth if these policies are enacted.

We have to find a way to make taxpayers whole.

The fact of the matter is, yes, corporations should be paying their fair share.

The reality is that the tax cuts that our colleagues on the other side embraced didn't do anything to grow the economy.

Corporations just need to pay their fair share.

It has been 395 days since the United States-Canadian border closed, and the closure was just extended another 30 days. Families on both sides of the border have been torn apart. People who love each other, parents, and grandchildren are…

But infrastructure decisions can sometimes hurt, not heal. It can tear our communities apart.

We need to start thinking about what a post-pandemic world looks like and how we can renew and rebuild.

We have a great opportunity here to rebuild the infrastructure of our country, but we also have an obligation, more so than anything else, to help those underserved communities that have been devastated by decades of expressway building.

We need more parks. We need more parkways. We need more pedestrian and bicycle access so that everybody will have access to good parks, and the healing power of parks and parkways that these expressways destroyed so many years ago.

I am very optimistic about the $20 billion that is in the infrastructure bill to restore neighborhoods.

The built environment either serves to hurt or to heal.

Today, the House will vote to approve the American Rescue Plan for poor and middle America. The false choice of Wall Street or Main Street is no more. This plan helps the neighborhood streets and the homes where real people live and…

The American Rescue Plan is bold action needed to meet this defining moment. Seventy-six percent of Americans are rooting for its passage: direct payments to Americans; help for teachers and students, to return both of them to the…

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of the American economy and American society.

I find it ironic that we are experiencing technical difficulty on a hearing regarding federal investment in technology.

I want reality, as well.

The United States' federal response to coronavirus, COVID-19 was late, sloppy, and adversarial.

I have heard Dr. Fauci, who probably is the most credible public health official, say that he is optimistic about the possibility of a vaccine at the end of this year.

What has been done to the African-American community with the higher than--the percentage of their population, cases of COVID-19, whether it is in Buffalo or any other city in this country, is very revealing, and exposes the acute…

The United States is the richest country in the world. We pay more for health care than any other country, and we have no treatment and we have no vaccine.

120,000 Americans are dead, and we have a government lockdown of the American economy because federal government failed to protect the American people.

The budget proposes to cut $1 trillion to Medicaid, which will hurt access to about 13 million Americans.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers are the unsung heroes of the United States infrastructure and economic development.

I urge my colleagues to support and prioritize Army Corps efforts, specifically from the Engineer Research and Development Center, to prevent and mitigate harmful algae blooms.