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House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Passes American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act Backed by Job Creators


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House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Passes American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act Backed by Job Creators

Congressman John Boehner
February 6, 2012


Today, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee passed the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, legislation that includes several pro-growth reforms aimed at removing barriers to long-term economic growth and job creation.   As Chairman John Mica (R-FL) explained, the infrastructure portion of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act reforms and streamlines federal programs, cuts red tape in the project approval process, increases states flexibility in determining their most critical transportation needs, and encourages private sector participation in financing and rebuilding our infrastructure. (See more: here).  The bill contains no earmarks an important departure from years past when members of both parties stuffed billions in wasteful spending into transportation bills – and does not rely on more of President Obamas wasteful stimulus spending schemes that have made our economy worse. 

The American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act directs funding to the most high-priority infrastructure projects that will have a direct impact on the economy and help create jobs, and has the support of several labor organizations and job creators:

The House Natural Resources Committee has already passed portions of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act that will remove barriers to American energy production to lower gas prices and help create jobs, and the House Ways & Means Committee will continue work on the bill today. Learn more and follow the progress of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act at: speaker.gov/energy.




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