Transportation & Infrastructure
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Infrastructure touches every aspect of our daily lives — especially in the Kansas City metro area, which is home to several major transportation and shipping hubs. But too often, we don’t think about the infrastructure we use every day until something goes wrong.
As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I work in a bipartisan way to improve our roads and railways, transit, airports, water infrastructure, and more — so that our communities are safe and our economy is strong.
- Focusing on Kansas: I’ve made it a priority to advocate for our local needs, from replacing lead pipes in Olathe to finally modernizing U.S. 69. I’ve brought the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and other leaders to our district to see Kansas projects in person, and I have secured federal funding to upgrade aging infrastructure needs across the district—like completing long-overdue updates to the Kansas City Levees system, advancing a vital project to lift downtown Merriam out of the floodplain and encourage community investment, and finally making upgrades to a dangerous stretch of K-68 in Miami County.
- Creating jobs and spurring growth: Through my position on the committee, I helped shape and pass the bipartisan infrastructure law — a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure and economy that will put 30,000 construction workers on the job in the Kansas City area alone. To ensure that the impact of this law is good for Kansas workers, I’ve shadowed workers on highway projects in De Soto, stormwater maintenance work in Wyandotte County, and construction apprenticeships in Olathe through my “Sharice’s Shift” program.
- Supply chain security: The most secure supply chain is one that starts in America. I’ve worked to ensure stronger and more flexible supply chains so we can avoid costly delays and lower costs from ship to shelf. That includes introducing legislation to help small and mid-sized manufacturers pivot their production during times of national emergency.