House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) released the following statement in response to the president’s State of the Union address:
“I welcome the president’s interest in improving our infrastructure. We have significant long-term infrastructure needs that must be addressed and responsibly paid for to improve our economic competitiveness, efficiency and quality of life.
“However, instead of showing leadership on these critical issues, the president offered little more than recycled sound bites from old speeches.