IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 63 
Supporting efforts to enact a bold jobs and infrastructure package that 
benefits all Americans, not just billionaires. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 25, 2017 
Mr. TED LIEU of California (for himself, Mr. POCAN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 
ELLISON, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. LEE, Mr. POLIS, Mr. CLAY, Mr. NOLAN, 
Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. FRANKEL
of Florida, Mr. 
HUFFMAN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. 
HANABUSA, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. KUSTER 
of New Hampshire, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. JOHN-
SON of Georgia, Mr. WELCH, Mr. SERRANO, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. NADLER, Ms. PINGREE, and Ms. CLARK of Massachu-
setts) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Supporting efforts to enact a bold jobs and infrastructure 
package that benefits all Americans, not just billionaires. 
Whereas the Nation’s crumbling roads, bridges, and schools, 
unsafe drinking water facilities, and outdated energy sys-
tems are in need of major transformation, and a plan is 
needed to rebuild the Nation and create millions of good 
jobs; 
Whereas the Nation’s taxpayers should not subsidize billion-
aires and Wall Street banks that will profit from 
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privatizing roads, bridges, drinking water and sanitation 
systems, and utilities; 
Whereas any investment in the Nation’s roads and bridges 
must support the repair and rehabilitation of existing as-
sets, improve resilience to more extreme weather, and 
support targeted expansions to reduce congestion, im-
prove air quality, and enable job growth; 
Whereas the Nation must ensure that every child who attends 
a public school has safe facilities that contribute to a 
high-quality education, and therefore the Nation must in-
vest to construct, renovate, repair, and modernize its 
schools; 
Whereas direct public investment in the United States public 
transportation network can meet the Nation’s infrastruc-
ture needs without selling off roads and bridges to pri-
vate investors and foreign entities; 
Whereas any clean water initiative must prioritize investment 
in communities most in need, ensure safe drinking water 
for millions of Americans, and protect the Nation’s riv-
ers, lakes, and oceans; 
Whereas any infrastructure package should include building 
high-speed internet facilities to ensure that this increas-
ingly essential resource is available to all Americans 
through direct funding, tax credits for low-income work-
ers, and investments in broadband to promote economic 
development, public safety, and a vibrant quality of life; 
Whereas any investments made to update Federal Aviation 
Administration facilities and United States ports, water-
ways, dams, and levees should ensure that these entities 
remain public, improve security, and facilitate commerce; 
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Whereas any public investment plan should include repairs 
and upgrades to the more than 1,800 Veterans Affairs 
facilities to ensure that every veteran has access to qual-
ity institutions and state-of-the-art treatment; 
Whereas any investment plan should prioritize creating mil-
lions of living-wage jobs for struggling communities and 
especially for people of color, women, and individuals in 
high-poverty areas; 
Whereas any public investment in Federal funding to public 
lands should be directed through Federal land manage-
ment agencies that would strengthen the Nation’s out-
door industry and ensure that public lands are widely en-
joyed by Americans for generations to come and are not 
sold off to private entities or foreign governments; 
Whereas true public investment also includes investment in 
Tribal transportation, Indian Health Service facilities, 
and Bureau of Indian Education schools to promote job 
creation in Indian country where community members 
have had to make do with substandard services for gen-
erations; 
Whereas public investment should aim to build resilient com-
munities and infrastructure protection to ensure that the 
Nation’s infrastructure can withstand cyber attacks, 
physical attacks, and the extreme weather events caused 
by climate change; 
Whereas a genuine infrastructure agenda should not sell or 
lease roads, water systems, or other essential infrastruc-
ture facilities, resulting in new tolls and user fees on 
working families; 
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Whereas we cannot leave essential rural infrastructure in dis-
repair simply because it would not generate profits for 
private investors; 
Whereas any public investment plan should include repairs 
and upgrades to the Nation’s public housing and assisted 
housing stock to address the Nation’s dire affordable 
rental housing crisis; 
Whereas government spending on infrastructure as a share of 
the economy has fallen to a 2-decade low, and yet for 
every $1 in government investment the Nation’s economy 
would gain $1.70 back through greater employment and 
efficiency; and 
Whereas in its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, the Amer-
ican Society of Civil Engineers estimates approximately 
$4.6 trillion in infrastructure needs over 10 years, of 
which $2.06 trillion does not have funding: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that any in-
frastructure plan passed by Congress must— 
(1) invest in creating millions of new jobs 
through investments in roads, bridges, and 21st cen-
tury projects; 
(2) prioritize public investment over corporate 
giveaways and selling off public goods; 
(3) ensure that direct public investment, with-
out reliance on private investors, provides the over-
whelming majority of the funding for infrastructure 
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improvement, so that public investments advance the 
public good; 
(4) prioritize racial and gender equity and envi-
ronmental justice; 
(5) embrace 21st-century clean-energy jobs, in-
cluding expanding solar and wind power, promoting 
energy efficiency, and modernizing the energy grid, 
while avoiding support for projects that promote fos-
sil fuel use and hasten the disastrous effects of cli-
mate change; 
(6) include expanded Buy America provisions, 
protect and encourage the use of project labor agree-
ments, require the use of Davis-Bacon prevailing 
wage standards, include strong local-hiring and vet-
eran-hiring requirements, ensure racial and gender 
equity in hiring, and guarantee that disadvantaged 
communities most in need, including both urban and 
rural communities, receive priority; 
(7) ensure the wealthiest Americans and profit-
able corporations who reap the greatest economic 
benefit from public goods pay what they owe and 
pay their fair share for key investments moving for-
ward; 
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(8) ensure that investments are not paid for at 
the expense of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, 
or any other vital program; 
(9) not weaken or repeal existing laws or rules 
protecting the air, water, or environment, transpor-
tation safety, civil rights, worker safety, prevailing 
wage standards, or minority contractor provisions; 
and 
(10) prioritize resilient infrastructure that can 
withstand natural disasters, as well as physical- and 
cyber-attacks. 
Æ 
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