National Infrastructure Week

Floor Speech

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Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on National Infrastructure Week.

For far too long, we have been living off the investments our parents and grandparents made a generation or two ago.

Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law which we passed in the last Congress and President Biden signed into law, we now have moved from infrastructure week to infrastructure decade.

In California it has created over 48,000 jobs in this short time with an investment of $42 billion. In my district, we are seeing progress. Some of the examples here are reinvestment in San Luis Reservoir dam, another 130,000 acre-feet of additional water storage, upgrading and expanding miles of highway improvements, funding clean school buses for communities like in Cutler and Orosi, and we will be breaking ground for the expansion of the Yosemite International Airport to provide greater service.

These are just some examples, and we are just getting started in my district.

Three years of funding remain, and now we have an opportunity to move from infrastructure decade throughout America. It is about time.

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