Infrastructure

Infrastructure

While we have been bombing and then rebuilding Baghdad, many of our own country's greatest resources have languished and decayed.

I would increase funding for a 21st century education system which really leaves no child behind, and equips each one to compete in a world economy. I'd propose a serious, long-range infrastructure plan to upgrade our schools, public transportation, highways, our sewage treatment, and our levees in below sea-level areas.

Rather than the pork-ridden omnibus transportation bill, which featured more than 6,000 earmarks for favored congressmen, I would work for a transportation strategy which interconnects cities and suburbs, inner cities and jobs and affordable housing, and ports and airports. This is a pre-requisite if Connecticut and the United States are to compete and prosper in the 21st century.

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