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This week, the House of Representatives will take up the most significant jobs and transportation reform bill Congress will consider this year. If Congress wants to improve our crumbling infrastructure and put Americans to work in the hard-hit construction industry, it’s time to support the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act.

This legislation will reform our federal transportation programs and rebuild our nation’s roads and bridges. This measure also reduces energy costs and dependence on foreign energy sources in a manner that will create thousands of new private sector jobs from coast to coast.

Because this measure ensures funding for the next five years, major infrastructure projects across the country can be undertaken, creating long-term employment opportunities. The Senate’s 18-month transportation proposal primarily allows for smaller, short-term employment projects.

Not only is this a jobs bill, it also launches a much! needed overhaul of our current transportation programs and bureaucracy. In fact, the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act is the most significant transportation reform initiative since the creation of the Interstate Highway System in 1956.

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