Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that infrastructure spending bills should include development programs that recruit and train individuals from communities with high unemployment rates.

any infrastructure spending bill enacted during the 115th Congress should include robust investments in workforce development programs that take meaningful actions to recruit and train individuals from communities with high unemployment rates, including African-American communities, Hispanic communities, and American Indian tribal areas;

any infrastructure spending bill enacted during the 115th Congress should include robust investments in workforce development programs that take meaningful actions to recruit and train unemployed veterans that have served in a conflict since September 11, 2001; and

any infrastructure spending bill enacted during the 115th Congress should include meaningful outreach efforts geared toward underrepresented contractors, including minority- and women-owned businesses, veteran owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran owned small businesses, and offerors that employ veterans on a full-time basis.