(The Center Square) – Five-year plans for American roads, bridges, transit, rail transportation, and highway and motor carrier safety programs reaches an 18-month crescendo Thursday with a committee markup of the $580 billion BUILD America 250 Act.

Introduced by Reps. Sam Graves, R-Mo., and Rick Larsen, D-Wash., and three others, the resolution from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the House of Representatives has already drawn support from industry groups, The Center Square has learned. Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C., chairman of the Subcommittee on Highways and transit and among those introducing the bill, calls the nation’s infrastructure “the silent engine of American productivity, and it cannot afford to sit idle.”

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