Malinowski Statement on Appointment to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Investment in public infrastructure is key to America’s greatness and essential to our national security. It has been a generation since Congress took on a comprehensive effort to reshape our nation’s transportation policies and Americans are suffering for it.

For our district, there is no more urgent economic and quality of life imperative than to complete the Gateway Tunnel Project, arguably the most important infrastructure project in America.  I look forward to working with Chairman DeFazio to ensure that the administration implements phase one — replacing New Jersey’s Portal Bridge, the main source of rail delays on the Northeast Corridor — and to secure long term funding for the Gateway Hudson River Tunnel.

Among the most common demands I heard from voters while campaigning was “fix the damn trains.” It is my pledge that a Democratic House will be friendlier to New Jersey and that revitalizing New Jersey’s infrastructure is among my highest priorities.