Pictured above: Senator Lou DiPalma (R.I)   Senator Lisa Boscola (Pa)  Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski (Pa)     Rep. Kyle Mullins(Pa)

The 2022 push to create a National Infrastructure Bank and enact HR3339 started with a bang.

Articles featuring quotes from prominent state elected officials, highlighting the positive aspects of the NIB to address the massive deficit in infrastructure spending, appeared in several publications, even after the enactment of President Biden's infrastructure bill.

Here are some of the quotes:

"Everybody agrees we have to fix our crumbling infrastructure; the problem is nobody knows how to pay for it. The national infrastructure bank will supercharge our industry and small businesses,” said DiPalma.

- R.I. State Senator Lou DiPalma , Vice-Chair of Transportation Policy Committee of the CSG East, in Perspectives

  Magazine, "Solving the infrastructure investment challenge", Council of State Governments East, 2021-22 Edition

  That article can be found here.

“This would be an augmentation and would not require any federal dollars,” Mullins said. “This is essentially putting our nation’s debt to work.”

-Pa. State Rep. Kyle Mullins

“There was a little hesitation because everybody was working on the Biden plan. We understand that. This is different from the Biden plan,” Pashinski said. “This is the private dollars, there are no tax dollars or whatsoever ... You’re looking at 25 million high-quality jobs.”

-Pa. State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski; Both PA. State Reps' quotes are in Scranton's The Times-Tribune frontpage article on Jan. 1,2022 entitled "Legislators Favor New Federal Bank Solely for Road, Bridge, and Other Infrastructure Upgrades". That article can be found here.

"Boscola agreed, describing the U.S. record of infrastructure investment as 'abysmal.' She has also sponsored a state Senate resolution calling on Congress to create a National Infrastructure Bank. 'We need to stop putting little band-aids on our infrastructure needs and calling it a success,' she said. 'The fact remains we need large, wholesale investment in our infrastructure and only the federal government is capable of harnessing that kind of investment.'"

- Pa. State Senator Lisa Boscola in The Morning Call,  Lehigh Valley, Pa, January 3, 2022 article. That article can be found here.