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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation has allocated $18 million in funding for the West Side Bridges replacement and seismic retrofit project on Yerba Buena Island through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) initiative. Congress provided the $1 billion for these FY21 RAISE grants in the appropriations omnibus last December, and Speaker Pelosi wrote Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in July to support funding for the Yerba Buena project.

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and a bipartisan group of Members of Congress on the White House South Lawn for the bill signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Below are the Speaker's remarks:

Speaker Pelosi. Good afternoon, everyone.

Dear Colleague,

In light of the attached notification by the Sergeant-at-Arms, in consultation with the Office of Attending Physician, that a public health emergency is in effect due to a novel coronavirus, I am hereby extending the "covered period" designated on January 4, 2021, pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, until December 30, 2021.

Dear Democratic Colleague,