On the recordDecember 9, 2025
I will admit to being pretty excited that the ePermit Act is on the floor today, not just because it is my bill but because America needs this. For years, both parties have agreed that our permitting system is too slow. It is too complicated. Frankly, it is too stuck in the past. That is too bad because, really, the story of America has been in no small part a history of big ideas and big projects. It is time for us to get back to that: for more housing, for more broadband, for more critical infrastructure that will power this American economy for decades to come. Too often in the last few years, our permitting process has stood in the way of that. Here we are, arguably the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Yet, our agencies have been using decades-old fragmented systems that simply were not built for the kind of scale and complexity that we see with modern projects. It is almost laughable.
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