[Excerpt] With unemployment remaining at unacceptable levels and the state of America\u27s infrastructure in serious decline. Congress\u27s top priority should be to produce bipartisan surface transportation legislation that is focused on putting millions of Americans back to work rebuilding our nation\u27s infrastructure. Instead, H.R. 7 goes down a partisan path that will destroy thousands of jobs, undercut our nation\u27s commitment to mass transit, and weaken America\u27s global competitiveness. As a result, the AFL-CIO cannot support this bill in its current form
