Tag: Infrastructure Bill

December 12, 2022

Legislation that would approve funding for water infrastructure projects around the country has been finalized, congressional transportation leaders announced this month. Congress appears ready to clear for President Joe Biden the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 during this post-election […]

June 24, 2022

Road, rail and port projects may have to be curtailed or delayed because of the effect that rising inflation is having on the purchasing power of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill enacted last year. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act […]

June 9, 2022

A bill that would authorize dozens of water infrastructure projects and studies was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 8. By a vote of 384 to 37, the chamber approved the Water Resources Development Act of 2022, […]

March 2, 2022

President Joe Biden in his first State of the Union address stressed a long-term vision for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill he signed last year, and discussed domestic and international priorities his administration is targeting. “America used to have the […]

November 2, 2021

Congressional approval of a multiyear highway policy measure would enhance state transportation agencies’ ability to plan long term for infrastructure projects. That is the message from the organization representing the country’s departments of transportation. Jim Tymon, executive director of the […]

October 28, 2021

President Joe Biden announced Oct. 28 that he and Democrats in Congress have reached a “historic” framework for his sweeping domestic policy package. But he still needs to lock down votes from key colleagues for what’s now a dramatically scaled-back […]

October 25, 2021

The White House said President Joe Biden made progress on his big tax-and-spending plan in a meeting with key moderate Sen. Joe Manchin and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, though further talks among staffers will be needed. The rare Sunday meeting, […]

October 21, 2021

The White House’s point person on ports is urging Congress to wrap negotiations on a $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill and roughly $2 trillion tax and spending measure to help address a supply-chain crunch that has delayed goods for millions […]

October 8, 2021

In a letter to members of the House of Representatives, the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO urged the two parties to come together and pass historic infrastructure investment bills. The TTD, as well as the 33 affiliated unions […]

October 1, 2021

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio told fellow Democrats that the House may pass a 30-day reauthorization for highway funding, a signal that the Democrats aren’t likely to immediately move ahead with a vote on infrastructure legislation. Authorization […]

August 6, 2021

Nearing decision time, senators were struggling to wrap up work on the bipartisan infrastructure plan despite hopes to expedite consideration and voting on the nearly $1 trillion proposal. The package had appeared on track for eventual Senate passage, a rare […]

August 2, 2021

The infrastructure bill is out. The Senate published the text on Sunday of a bipartisan infrastructure agreement that has been moving through the process and could be up for a final vote as soon as this week. The compromise legislation […]

July 21, 2021

Senate Republicans expected on July 21 to reject an effort to begin debate on a bipartisan infrastructure deal that senators brokered with President Joe Biden, though supporters are hoping they’ll get another chance in coming days. A vote was expected […]

July 13, 2021

Emerging from a private meeting at the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said July 12 that he and President Joe Biden are on the same page as Democrats draft a “transformative” infrastructure package unleashing more than $3.5 trillion in […]

June 7, 2021

The Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives plans to make good on its pledge to pass some type of an infrastructure bill by July 4. And the path toward that goal runs through the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. […]

June 29, 2020

The House is set to pass its $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, H.R. 2 (116), this week, advancing, among many other things, a five-year reauthorization of surface transportation programs. Passage of the Democrat-written bill is a given in the House, but […]

June 24, 2020

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer acknowledged on Tuesday that Democratic leaders plan to pass their $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill with $145 billion of deficit spending, and he blamed the White House for not coming up with a pay-for. House Transportation […]

February 5, 2020

Two years ago, Trump stood in the House chamber and called on Congress to produce a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill. On Tuesday night, during this year’s State of the Union and two years wiser about the ways of Washington, it […]

January 31, 2020

House Transportation Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is already getting an earful from his fellow members after joining Nancy Pelosi to roll out House Democrats’ infrastructure plans. As our Tanya Snyder reports, he’s facing an onslaught of member asks on priorities […]

November 15, 2019

THE ‘TRUMP FACTOR’ IN DEMOCRATS’ NEW INFRASTRUCTURE PUSH: Drag your Infrastructure Week jokes out of the closet again, folks. House Democrats held a caucus meeting Thursday on their plans for infrastructure and trade, which appear to be what they want […]