[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 84 (Thursday, May 18, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK

  (Mr. COSTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  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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