Correction Appended The massive infrastructure bill passed by the House July 1 on a 221-201 vote includes several provisions that aim to speed EPA’s drinking water standards-setting process, underscoring long-running frustration over whether the existing process in the Safe Drinking Water Act (...
Negotiations over the bipartisan infrastructure bill continue between wings of the Democratic Party after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed the vote. Follow here for the latest news on Capitol Hill.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the INVEST bill’s prime architect, was critical about the Senate bipartisan group’s infrastructure framework. But DeFazio has tempered his criticism. He said in a July 30 press briefing that if the Senate does pass...
And in the House, a group of House moderate Democrats have said they won’t vote for the economic bill without a final score from the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO, the federal agency that provides budget and economic information to Congress, said last week itcannot give a definitive ...
The Biden administration is preparing to give us a first look at its potential infrastructure bill. The White House has begun to offer details about what the…
So it was no use for Pelosi to pass it in the House. And she was forced to cave on the infrastructure bill because progressives insisted the other measure be must be considered by the House too or they'd vote against the infrastructure bill. JAYAPAL SAYS PROGRESSIVES WILL REDUCE $3.5T...
House plan and an alternative bill that relied on higher user fees, the latter squelched by trucking, oil, and tire industry lobbyists. House Speaker Sam Rayburn lashed out: “The people who were going to have to pay for these roads put on a propaganda campaign that killed the bill.” ...
and our electoral system as it currently stands is an impediment to a more sustainably progressive America. Geographic realities have enabled gerrymandering and the structure of the Senate to completely bastardize the central democratic concept of “one person, one vote”. Hopefully the Democrats can...
In a letter on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Democrats that she wants the infrastructure bill passed before the end of October. SINEMA SLAMS DEM LEADERSHIP OVER ‘INEXCUSABLE’ FAILURE TO HOLD VOTE ON INFRASTRUCTURE BILL "There is an October 31st Surface Transporta...
As Congress approved the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act two weeks ago, the Democratic majority expected the same dynamic to unfold once more: Republicans would, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "vote no and take the dough." The majority party may not, however, have fully apprec...