Washington, D.C. - This morning, Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D, MA-04), member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, joined Kasie Hunt on MSNBC’s “Way Too Early” to discuss the January 6th Commission and the historic INVEST Act passing the House today.
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OnOmRSlwF8
KEY EXCERPTS:
On January 6th Commission:
"[Republicans] are choosing Trump over truth yet again. Sunlight is the best disinfectant - the American people deserve a transparent and full accounting of what happened on January 6th and how we can prevent an attack on our democracy in the future.
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"The Speaker extended her hand to Republicans in the first iteration of this bipartisan commission. They rejected that offer. And I have full confidence in her judgement in how to put together this committee so that it provides an objective reporting to the American people.
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“[Failure to participate] will speak to [Republicans'] own internal struggle to choose between Donald Trump and his incessant need for validation versus the best needs of the American people. But regardless, Democrats are going to move ahead. We're going to provide a full accounting and we're going to provide recommendations to prevent these types of actions in the future.”
On Infrastructure:
"We are going to move ahead with an infrastructure bill that provides for fixing roads and bridges, for upgrading transit, [and] for expanding broadband. We welcome Republican participation and ideas but we're not going to wait...We are going to pass an infrastructure bill. And I would focus less on the day-in / day-out processes...[and] more on the policies we're delivering to constituents. We're ensuring clean water for the next generation, we're ensuring access to jobs and services by upgrading transit, we're ensuring that kids are not doing homework outside of McDonald’s by upgrading broadband across the country. These are investments with strong, bipartisan support in the American body politic and we are going to deliver on them...[The INVEST Act] is making historic generational investments in transit, in fixing our infrastructure, in ensuring clean water [it should] really become the nucleus of the senate version of the bill...I'm confident we're going to deliver a good end product."
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