{"id":539705,"date":"2022-12-01T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=539705"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:53:12","slug":"us-house-passes-legislation-aimed-at-averting-national-rail-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-house-passes-legislation-aimed-at-averting-national-rail-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes legislation aimed at averting national rail shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at averting a national rail shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The lower chamber approved the resolution on Wednesday in a 290-137 vote, sending it to the Senate for consideration, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a second vote, most House members agreed to give rail workers seven days of paid sick leave per year.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden issued a statement on Wednesday, urging the Senate to &#8220;act urgently&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A rail shutdown would be devastating to our economy and families across the country,&#8221; Biden warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at averting a national rail shutdown. The lower chamber approved the resolution on Wednesday in a 290-137 vote, sending it to the Senate for consideration, Xinhua news agency reported. In a second vote, most House members agreed to give rail workers seven days of paid sick leave per year. US President Joe Biden issued a statement on Wednesday, urging the Senate to &#8220;act urgently&#8221;. &#8220;A rail shutdown would be devastating to our economy and families across the country,&#8221; Biden warned.<\/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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539705","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=539705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}