{"id":428866,"date":"2021-08-03T10:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428866"},"modified":"2021-08-03T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T07:36:46","slug":"us-senate-works-to-push-1-trillion-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-to-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-senate-works-to-push-1-trillion-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-to-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate works to push $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements to roads, bridges and mass-transit systems and deliver a rare bipartisan victory to President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<p>Following long work sessions on Saturday and Sunday, Senate negotiators announced that they had finished drafting a 2,702-page bill, which promptly was introduced, clearing the way for senators to debate amendments. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been decades &#8211; decades &#8211; since Congress passed such a significant, stand-alone investment,&#8221; a buoyant Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end, the bipartisan group of senators have produced a bill that will dedicate substantial resources to repair, maintain, and upgrade our nation\u2019s physical infrastructure,&#8221; the Democratic leader added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements to roads, bridges and mass-transit systems and deliver a rare bipartisan victory to President Joe Biden. Following long work sessions on Saturday and Sunday, Senate negotiators announced that they had finished drafting a 2,702-page bill, which promptly was introduced, clearing the way for senators to debate amendments. &#8220;It has been decades &#8211; decades &#8211; since Congress passed such a significant, stand-alone investment,&#8221; a buoyant Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. &#8220;In the end, the bipartisan group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}