On Friday, Congress passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a signature part of President Joe Biden‘s economic agenda. The bill has $550 billion of new federal investments in everything from bridges, to roads, to broadband, to water. On Saturday, the president called it a “once-in-a-generation investment that’s gonna create …
Read More »Speaker Pelosi On Build Back Better Bill: ‘We’re Almost There
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that Democrats are nearing a deal on President Joe Biden‘s ‘Build Back Better’ Act. The social spending bill that Democrats have been negotiating for months includes most of the president’s priorities, including an array of benefits for students, families and the elderly, and …
Read More »Senate Passes $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
The Senate on Tuesday passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure bill in a 69-30 vote. The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act puts $110 billion into roads, bridges, and other major projects, $66 billion into passenger and freight rail, $65 billion into broadband, $55 billion into water systems, and $39 billion into …
Read More »Vice President Harris To Host Dinner For Female Senators
Vice President Kamala Harris has invited 24 female senators to dinner next Tuesday to show bipartisanship within a divided congress. If everyone attends, the mix would consist of 16 Democrats and 8 Republicans. This will be the first known time that the former California Senator hosts lawmakers in the Naval …
Read More »Bipartisan Group Announces Infrastructure Proposal Agreement
A group of bipartisan lawmakers tapped by President Joe Biden announced Thursday that they had reached an infrastructure deal to present to Congress. The group of 10 Democrats and Republicans said they had reached an agreement on a “realistic, compromise framework to modernize our nation’s infrastructure and energy technologies” and …
Read More »Republicans Unveil $568 Billion Infrastructure Package
Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure package that, at about a quarter of the price of President Joe Biden‘s proposal, seeks to narrow what is defined as infrastructure. The proposal focuses on roads and bridges, public transportation, railways, drinking water, wastewater, safety, waterways, airports, water storage, and …
Read More »Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Includes $100 Billion To Close Digital Divide
President Joe Biden has proposed investing $100 billion in an effort to make high-speed internet available throughout the country and affordable for every American. Likening the investment to the 1936 Rural Electrification Act, which brought power to farms and country towns throughout the heartland as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s …
Read More »Pres. Biden Lays Out Infrastructure Plan: ‘A Once-In-A-Generation Investment In America’
President Joe Biden flew to Pittsburgh Wednesday to unveil his national infrastructure and climate plan. “Two years ago, I began my campaign here in Pittsburgh, saying I was running to rebuild the backbone of America,” Biden began. “And today, I return as your president to lay out the vision of …
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