Washington, DC — This evening, Rep. Lucy McBath (GA-06) voted to pass H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, a transformative package to rebuild America, improve safety, and create good-paying jobs while investing in modern, sustainable infrastructure that is smarter, safer, and made to last. Among its provisions, the plan invests in roads, bridges, and transit systems, as well as schools, housing, health care, green energy, water infrastructure, and modernizing our Postal Service. The package passed by a bipartisan vote of 233 - 188.

“Those in the metro-Atlanta area know how crucial the investments in our infrastructure and transportation systems are to improving our communities. My neighbors are asking for action to reduce the heavy traffic and extended commute times that impact their everyday lives,” said McBath. “As we invest in an infrastructure plan for the future, we must also support our families, our workers, and our communities. This plan is a modern framework that invests in American infrastructure, creates good-paying jobs, and offers new solutions to our transportation challenges in pursuit of a safer, more sustainable future. I was glad to vote for H.R. 2 and see it pass the House today.”

H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act:

• Rebuilds our highways, bridges, transit, and airports by investing nearly $500 billion to improve safety, reduce gridlock and put the U.S. on a path toward zero emissions from the transportation sector, all while protecting American jobs.
• Invests in our children’s futures by helping safely reopen and rebuild schools with a $130 billion investment in school infrastructure targeted at schools that do not meet health and safety standards, while also creating 2 million jobs and upgrading child care facilities to ensure compliance with current and future public health directives.
• Upgrades hospitals and health care infrastructure by investing $30 billion to increase capacity and strengthen care, help community health centers respond to COVID-19 and future public health emergencies, improve clinical laboratory infrastructure, support the Indian Health Service‘s infrastructure and increase capacity for community-based care.
• Delivers a 21^st-century Postal Service by modernizing infrastructure and pursuing a zero-emissions postal fleet.
• Invests boldly in affordable housing by directing over $100 billion to reduce housing inequality, create jobs, stimulate the economy, improve living conditions and increase environmental sustainability and climate resilience.
• Modernizes our energy infrastructure for a clean energy future by investing more than $70 billion to transform our electric grid, promote new renewable energy infrastructure and strengthen existing infrastructure, help develop an electric vehicle charging network and support energy efficiency and climate resilience.
• Ensures all communities have clean water by investing tens of billions to remove dangerous contaminants from our drinking water and invests in new, safe wastewater infrastructure.

A fact sheet on the Moving Forward Act is available here.