From The White House” To: srikandi@swissmail.com
Here's
what I saw in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood today:
I
saw a community coming together to replace an obsolete old train station with a
new, energy-efficient one that connects two high-employment areas.
Yesterday,
in St. Louis, I saw the construction of a land bridge that's designed to let
residents and tourists better access the city's famous Archway.
Our
infrastructure projects -- the roads we pave, the tracks we lay down, the
bridges we build -- they bring out the best of us as a country. We build big
things. It's our history.
That
happened because our Administration took steps to expedite the permitting
process for these kinds of projects. And today, we announced that we're doing
the same thing for 11 more accelerated projects -- from Boston's South Station
to the Pensacola Bay Bridge.
But
there's more that's got to be done to make sure this country's infrastructure
projects get the funding they need. That's something only Congress can do, and
they're running out of time to do it.
If
our Congress doesn't act soon, the funding that pays for our transportation
projects will run out. The Department of Transportation won't have a dime to go
toward more than 112,000 projects happening around the country. Nearly 700,000
good jobs would be at risk. And some states are already slowing down projects
because they're anticipating this inaction.
Think
about that for a second.
These
states are putting American jobs on the line because they’re actually expecting
their legislators to refuse to do their jobs.
It
shouldn't be that way, and you can play a role in changing it by making sure
everyone knows what's going on and what it means.
Thanks.
Vice
President Joe Biden
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