Infrastructure
Again, GOP puts party before progress, blocking infrastructure bills
July 22, 2021Even Republican senators who drafted the bipartisan “compromise” voted against it.
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Great Lakes and St. Lawrence climate change damage bill hits $2 billion
July 7, 2021The hefty bill has mayors begging Congress to include targeted climate change funds in the infrastructure bill.
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Labor, green groups unite to push Jobs Plan and Families Plan
June 30, 2021Congress seems hell-bent on passing a stripped-down version of the Jobs Plan and—thanks to rigid Senate Republican opposition and filibuster threats—doing nothing at all about the Families Plan.
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Progressive groups gather support for $6 trillion-plus ‘bigger than Biden’ budget bill
June 29, 2021Their “bigger than Biden bill” is nothing less than a moral imperative, they say, that would enable completion of the real work that has to be done.
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Infrastructure deal: ‘Concrete’ projects in, ‘human infrastructure’ not yet
June 25, 2021Retro-fitting schools, Green New Deal, child care, and paid family and medical leave have to wait for a reconciliation piece.
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