On the recordNovember 16, 2021
I thank Congresswoman Madeleine Dean of the 4th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. This bill does so much, and we are so proud here tonight to talk about it. It is a win for the American people no matter which way you slice it. Building out our first ever national network of charging stations so families can travel coast to coast in electric vehicles, making high- speed internet available and affordable for every household in America, especially those rural, hard-to-get-to places, cleaning up brownfields and Superfund sites, as well as plugging, as I said before, abandoned mine lands and orphan wells to stop pollution and protect public health and to build up our resistance to superstorms, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes that cost us billions of dollars in damage, $99 billion last year alone. This bipartisan infrastructure deal is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America, and a majority of these jobs, as Representative Boyle pointed out, do not require a college degree. So the question is, what does it mean to us? What does it mean to us that we have passed this magnificent, enormous investment in American infrastructure, this belief in our Nation's future? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline) to describe what it means to him and his 1st District constituents.
