Bill is working to get Americans back to work through cosponsoring the National Infrastructure Development Bank Act—which would fund and create a bank that would direct public and private dollars toward infrastructure projects of national or regional significance.
Support creating a National Infrastructure Development Bank to fund nationally or regionally significant infrastructure projects and promote job creation.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov lists Representative William R. Keating as in Congress from 2011 to present, with Massachusetts District 10 service in the 112th Congress and District 9 service from the 113th through 119th Congresses.
Congress.gov says H.R.402 was introduced on January 24, 2011, was titled the National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2011, would establish the National Infrastructure Development Bank as a wholly owned government corporation, and had the status Introduced with latest action referral to subcommittee on March 23, 2011.
Congress.gov says H.R.658 would establish the National Infrastructure Development Bank as a government corporation to finance energy, environmental, telecommunications, and transportation infrastructure projects, but its tracker status was Introduced and its latest action was referral to subcommittee on February 7, 2019.
The Congress.gov cosponsor list for H.R.658 identifies Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9] as an original cosponsor dated January 17, 2019; the same page reports 62 current cosponsors.
Assessments
Keating supported the promised policy through concrete later-term legislative action, including original cosponsorship of H.R.658, the National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2019. However, that bill remained introduced/referred and did not become law, and the earlier 2011 aligned bill also failed to advance. The promised National Infrastructure Development Bank was therefore not created, but the cosponsorship warrants an effort badge.