A diverse coalition of American organizations has signed a letter organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the leading business lobbying organization in the United States—urging reforms to the infrastructure permitting process. “Today, the single biggest obstacle to building the infrastructure of the future is a broken permitting system,” reads the letter, which was published on…
Diverse Coalition of Groups Backs Infrastructure Permitting Reforms
March 27, 2023
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Senate Votes to Reverse Biden Administration’s Environmental Rules
August 5, 2022
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The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution seeking to undo environmental rules implemented by the Biden administration earlier this year, voting for it by a narrow margin. Last month, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced the S.J. Res 55 resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the Biden administration’s changes to the National Environmental…
Railways Receiving Infrastructure Bill Billions are ‘Dying,’ Experts Say
A shiny passenger train racing across long empty stretches of American plains may be iconic, but it’s an economic anachronism, experts say. Even so, the Senate’s infrastructure bill gives $66 billion toward the repair of Amtrak lines—nearly 60 cents to Amtrak for every dollar the bill put toward highways. This figure doesn’t reflect the way…
Railways Receiving Billions From Infrastructure Bill Are ‘Dying,’ Experts Say
A shiny passenger train racing across long empty stretches of American plains may be iconic, but it’s an economic anachronism, experts say. Even so, the Senate’s infrastructure bill gives $66 billion toward the repair of Amtrak lines—nearly 60 cents to Amtrak for every dollar the bill put toward highways. This figure doesn’t reflect the way…
Biden Reveals ‘Catch-Up’ Plan to Curtail US Wildfires
June 30, 2021
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President Joe Biden shared his administration’s plan to deal with the intensifying wildfires in the Western U.S. at a White House Meeting on Wednesday with western state governors, calling the fires a problem that affects everyone. Biden told the governors he had been briefed twice about the current wildfire readiness of federal and state agencies and…
McConnell Now Pessimistic About Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Says 2017 Tax Reform Is GOP ‘Red Line’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he and his Republican caucus have gone from optimism to pessimism after President Joe Biden said he would not sign the narrower bipartisan infrastructure bill without agreement from Congress of the passage of his tax bill. Biden said at the second White House press conference on Thursday,…
Biden Considers 15 Percent Minimum Corporate Tax Rate to Pay for Infrastructure Bill
June 3, 2021
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President Joe Biden has proposed a minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent, and increased Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding, as a way to pay for an infrastructure package that he is negotiating with Republicans, according to the White House. “The book minimum (15 percent) was in the president’s American Jobs plan proposal as a…
Blunt Urges Biden to Cut Infrastructure Package by 70 Percent for ‘Easy Win’ on GOP Backing
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday accused Democrats of padding the infrastructure plan with unrelated pet spending projects, while urging President Joe Biden to pare it down by around two-thirds, saying it would then easily win Republican backing and give the White House the coveted badge of bipartisanship. Biden campaigned on being able to work across…
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