From the Huron Daily Plainsman, Congresswoman Kristi Noem is still racking up the highway miles during the August Congressional recess, as she addresses the Huron Young Professionals luncheon on Monday:
When Congress returns to Washington, D.C., in September, Noem is hoping the House will pass a six-year transportation bill that would tie international tax reform to it to pay for it.
“It will be a permanent law that will allow all these companies that are keeping their dollars overseas to bring their money back into the United States and reinvest it,” Noem said.
A six-year highway bill would be the longest one in decades, and would give South Dakota certainty in addressing its deteriorating roads and bridges.
Noem said the most-often asked question she has gotten as she has traveled the state during the August recess deals with the controversial nuclear deal with Iran.
Like other countries in the region, she can’t support it.
It fails to eliminate Iran’s pathway to a nuclear weapon and there are no restrictions on how Iran can spend the $150 billion influx of cash as the sanctions are dropped, she said.