On the recordSeptember 27, 2021
This is not about hijacking America. It is about rewarding America. I stand here with one bill, the INVEST bipartisan infrastructure bill, and, yes, the Build Back America--one bill. Let me share with you the reasons why. This bill on the floor right now, the agreement will create good-paying union jobs. It will deliver high-speed internet to every American, eliminating lead pipes, and providing clean drinking water. Something in my district that is long overdue. Public transit. But most importantly, it will reconnect communities. As we try to overcome this massive I-45 north in Texas where we need the input of the government, Federal Government, to make a balance between highways and Black communities and communities of color that are traditionally divided by highways. This bill will do so. And it will remedy brownfields and other sites. At the same time, we have the recognition that we deal with people. And what does that mean? That is that we will have pre-K in our Build Back America. We will have expanded Medicaid in Build Back America. We will have child care for the individuals, women in particular, that need to go to work. We will have a care economy. We will have affordable housing that invests so that people will have safe housing. This will provide a wholeness. This is not a hijacking. It is actually a reward that we put two outstanding directions of the President's agenda, President Biden's absolutely progressive, moving agenda for all of America.…
