Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announces that a bipartisan group of senators has finalized legislative text of the infrastructure bill
"The bipartisan group of senators has finished writing the text of the infrastructure bill," the New York Democrat said,"And in a moment I'll take the procedural steps to make their legislative language the base of the bill here on the floor."RELATED: Read the billNow that the text is complete, Schumer submitted it as the substitute amendment, making it the base of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
It invests $73 billion to rebuild the electric grid, $66 billion in passenger and freight rail, $65 billion to expand broadband Internet access, $55 billion for water infrastructure, $40 billion to fix bridges, $39 billion to modernize public transit like buses and $7.5 billion to create the first federal network of charging stations for electric vehicles.
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