Brian Higgins

We are stuck in a bad situation, not entirely, but primarily because we and the rest of the world are addicted to oil and gas.

The world gives Vladimir Putin $1 billion every single day for the gas and oil that Russia provides.

Restaurants have been hit particularly hard during the pandemic, taking on increasing costs while facing huge revenue losses. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund provided $28.6 billion for restaurants…

Over 34 million people in the United States have diabetes. Nearly a quarter require insulin to stay alive, but the cost of insulin is bankrupting American families, and that must change. According to research conducted by RAND, Americans…

I rise on National Vietnam War Veterans Day to honor U.S. Army Specialist Roger Dearmyer, a western New York native and Purple Heart recipient who passed in December 2021. Roger deployed to Vietnam in 1966 with the Fourth Infantry Division…

Children lost on average six months of learning when it came to math, but this was not across the board.

This week, the House will consider a bill to provide both humanitarian and military aid to the people of Ukraine. We must fortify President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people from an unprovoked attack on an independent country. We must also…

Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted many mask wearing mandates due to the positive trends in the fight against COVID-19. Effective today, Canada's Ontario Ministry of Health is removing capacity limits and…

For generations, Americans and Canadians have owned homes on either side of the border, making many of our citizens neighbors in every sense of the word. The pandemic has hurt the connections between our two countries, often making it…

The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs law will invest more than $14 billion this year alone in the Nation's ports and waterways. In my community, this will provide $10 million for Times Beach Nature Preserve on Buffalo's Outer…

From the steel mills to the auto plants, Buffalo and Western New York are communities that respect hard work and have a long and strong record of leading and supporting the labor movement. That tradition continues with local Starbucks…

Temperatures this week in Buffalo and western New York are in single digits. My community has some of the oldest housing stock in the country. Keeping these homes safe and warm is expensive. Failing to do so can be life threatening. This…

This committee, and this Congress, should take this threat seriously and put forth resources to proactively address it.

I also urge this committee to fortify the infrastructure that our communities rely on to deliver clean drinking water.

I urge my colleagues to support these efforts to reinforce the progress we have made on the Great Lakes, and protect our drinking water infrastructure.

This committee and this Congress should take this threat seriously, and put forth resources to proactively address it.

One way this Congress can protect the health of the Great Lakes and Lake Erie is by proactively addressing the growing threat of harmful algal blooms, and promoting clean drinking water infrastructure in this year's Water Resources…

To address this inadequate situation, the Infrastructure law's plan to enhance cross border rail service will identify challenges to Amtrak operations in Canada and offer recommendations for improvement.

The ability for residents on either side of the border to hop on a train and quickly travel between Western New York and Toronto... would transform our economies.

Expanding passenger rail would revolutionize transportation in America, stimulate economic development and job creation, and have multiplier effects that would reverberate across regional economies for decades.

I thank the chairman for yielding, for his integrity, and his steady leadership throughout this process. I am proud of the legislation that we are considering today, and the entire House should be as well. Over the past two decades we have…

High-quality, high-speed broadband is essential in today's interconnected and interdependent world. Underserved communities throughout America need internet access for education, transportation, and healthcare services and to realize the…

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed into law yesterday reveals the power of this moment and the importance of momentum. Madam Speaker, 50 years ago, the Buffalo River was declared biologically dead and ecologically destroyed…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I was listening intently to the other side extolling the virtues of nothing but a cynical assessment of the American economy when the American economy, in fact, needs investment. A couple of facts I want…

My two colleagues from Pennsylvania were very clear about the component parts of this plan and the good things that they do for individuals, but they also do good things for our Nation as a whole. Madam Speaker, the conservative economist…