WASHINGTON: Democrat controlled US House of Representatives approved the surface transportation of $ 715 billion and water infrastructure bills on Thursday in what Democrats were seen as the first step towards infrastructure legislation that complements in September.
The bill, which includes the provisions of the initial proposal of President Joe Biden, infrastructure proposal, which passes additional expenditures for roads, bridges, road safety, electric vehicle charging stations, trains, transit, drinking and waste water infrastructure.
It also funds programs that will provide money for large projects, including a $ 11.6 billion plan to connect New York Jersey and New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan through four modern transportation tubes under the Hudson River.
Voting 221-201 sent law to the Senate led by democracy.
The level of expenditure of legislation increases with amendments and ngara, but housemaids cannot be said immediately with how much.
The act of marking the first time that the house has chosen to pass the law containing the Earmark, because Democrats and Republicans raises practices allowing parliamentarians to increase pet projects this year.
The bill points to more than 1,470 projects of almost $ 5.7 billion in expenses, according to US home transportation & infrastructure committee.
Nearly 1,070 projects worth under $ 4 billion are sought after by Democrats.
Republicans secured 403 projects worth almost $ 1.7 billion.
Legislation is needed to have a re-authorization of the US surface transportation program with a deadline of September 30.
Maid Democrats Home said its size can also help the bipartisan work group in the US Senate closed the $ 1.2 trillion infrastructure framework of the legislative text.
Biden has supported a bipartisan and senate agreement led by democratically hopes to give laws at the end of this month.
Democrats home also work to produce related landmark reconciliation bills that will overcome climate change, expand social programs and pay new initiatives with tax increases in US companies and rich goals rejected by the Republican Party.
Democrats home and the Senate aim to provide budget resolution with reconciliation instructions this month, and then gave the approval of the final congress on the bipartisan infrastructure law and reconciliation bill in September.
The initiative can cost $ 6 trillion, all told.
The house surface transport bill Thursday contains $ 343 billion for roads, bridges and safety – including $ 4 billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
This size also requires $ 109 billion for transit and $ 95 billion for trains, including three-fold funding for US passenger trains, Amtrak, up to $ 32 billion, $ 117 billion for drinking water infrastructure and more than $ 51 billion for infrastructure wastewater.
This will authorize $ 4.1 billion for grants to buy electric transit buses, creating a $ 500 million grant program to reduce Gridlock traffic in large metropolitan areas and $ 1 billion to overcome parking shortages for commercial motorized vehicles and allow more severe electric vehicles on US streets and.
Mandate additional safety features on the new school bus.