Every day you drive your car or take a bus that travels on roads and bridges. Each year hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians travel by airplanes for business or pleasure. And most days we will all purchase goods that arrive in our State via huge ships that dock in our harbors. We can all relate to how transportation issues affect our daily lives. But there are many other indirect ways that infrastructure affect us and our communities.
Adequate infrastructure is key to economic development and in turn to keeping our state prosperous.
It is no coincidence that communities with poor infrastructure are poor themselves. That is why I am committed to insuring that all of South Carolina and especially the Sixth Congressional District receives its fair share of federal assistance to rectify this problem. This is an award of which I am extremely proud. Since being elected to Congress I have dedicated myself to insuring South Carolinians receive fair representation and a fair return for their tax dollars. Those efforts culminated last year when I served on the conference committee which wrote the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, known as TEA-21.