Larson Highlights Need for Action on Legislation to Address Outdated Infrastructure in Hartford and Around the Country

Washington, D.C. - During today's Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Leveraging the Tax Code for Infrastructure Investment,Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) highlighted the need for Congress to act on legislation to address outdated infrastructure in the Hartford region and throughout the country.
Click here to see Larson's remarks and questions to the hearing witnesses.
"We've been seeing a consistent trend from our Republican colleagues, where their mantra seems to be: ‘Vote no and take the dough. And at the hearing, put on a show, but when you go to the floor, make sure you're a no.'
"The problems that we're dealing with are enormous and shouldn't be partisan," said Larson. "In my district, the I-84 and I-91 interchange is the number one chokehold in Connecticut, number two in New England, and number 11 nationwide. When you add in the levees that are deteriorating in Hartford and East Hartford, this rises to a level of urgency and highlights the dire need for comprehensive infrastructure legislation, like the American Jobs Plan. I think the Biden Administration had region's like Hartford in mind when they crafted the American Jobs Plan, because in addition to the typical infrastructure problems we're facing, we also have communities that are cut off from its river and from each other. The North End of Hartford, a minority community that includes one of the poorest zip codes in the nation (the 06120), has been cut off from the rest of the city and impacted by I-84 cutting right through it. This once thriving neighborhood has been decimated by the highway cutting it off. We need to act now to right these decades-long wrongs."