Peter DeFazio

Transit has lessened our road congestion and improved what is some of the worst air quality in the nation.

It is dead wrong that New Jerseyans and all who travel on the Northeast Corridor have been forced to traverse a bridge dating back to President Taft.

We must expand commuter rail capacity under the Hudson to keep up with demand.

I was a teacher and I can tell you D+ wasn't a grade you were pleased with.

I am grateful for your leadership and partnership.

I thank him for his ideas and advocacy.

I have raised the issue of a new program in EDA to provide predevelopment and other assistance for these chronically depressed areas.

I thank the gentleman, and I share his concern for communities like he grew up in.

I strongly believe that we need an economic opportunity agenda that empowers communities, spurs widely shared economic growth.

I have led the development of a new bill called the Build Back Better Act, a bill that would establish a new 10-year Federal grant program.

Too often Democratic and Republican administrations have failed to lead on infrastructure. This is our moment to go big and be bold.

By making our transportation more interconnected and more reliable, individuals can finally have realistic choices about their mode of transportation.

This project will be the model and prototype of the American Jobs Plan.

This design has created racial isolation in the city.

I applaud the committee for including my floor amendment last year expressing the concern for proposed cuts to long distance Amtrak routes.

Now we invite all of our House colleagues to join as we demonstrate to the American people that their government is still capable of working together.

Making sure members can directly advocate for their districts--as we'll hear a lot of today--is key.

Americans across this country absolutely want Congress to act.

I strongly believe that rebuilding and re-imagining our infrastructure is hands down the best tool we have to usher in American manufacturing's second act.

I'm incredibly encouraged by the fact that the current administration has made rebuilding our infrastructure a top priority.

This is a moment more than 70 years in the making, and if done right, it's an incredible opportunity to: Create millions of good-paying jobs and rebuild the middle class; Restore our global competitiveness and unleash our economic…

Social equity is addressed in this bill.

We also have to consider that, despite recent improvements in the economy, we are still down more than 8 million jobs.

I support the President's American Jobs Plan.

I think it is really finally time to go big and bold, and to move beyond the Eisenhower era of infrastructure.