As we celebrated our National Day of Thanksgiving last week, one thing I was especially grateful for was passage of a generational bipartisan infrastructure bill for the American people. Last month, I watched from the White House lawn as President Biden officially signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. Not only am I proud to have supported this long overdue investment in our national infrastructure – the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Eisenhower administration – but I am overjoyed knowing that Missouri and the heartland will benefit tremendously from the public projects, quality services and good-paying jobs it will provide. I have said it many times before – and the notion still rings true – the needs and challenges facing our rural communities are not intrinsically different from those of their urban and suburban counterparts. No matter where you come from, every American wants a quality job that keeps a roof over their head and food on the table, a…