03-30-2021, 02:53 PM
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Planar Protector
Join Date: Aug 2017
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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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its amazing how often t̶h̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶k̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ politicians talk about how bad "the other side" is, but never can give you any details how they want to do it better.
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Last year, the House passed its own $1.5 trillion infrastructure package, the Moving Forward Act. The bill invested in traditional roads and bridges infrastructure, but also put money toward revitalizing America’s rail system, aging school buildings, and spotty broadband infrastructure. Here are the key points of the Moving Forward Act:
- $300 billion for fixing existing roads and bridges, including tens of thousands of structurally deficient bridges
- $100 billion for transit funding, including putting more zero-emission buses on the roads and upgrading roads to be friendlier to pedestrians and bicyclists
- $1.4 billion for alternative fuel charging infrastructure, like electric vehicle charging stations, and tripling funding for Amtrak to $29 billion
- $130 billion for school infrastructure, to improve aging school buildings that were built with hazardous materials like asbestos and lead pipes
- $100 billion for affordable housing infrastructure to either create or preserve 1.8 million affordable homes
- $100 billion for broadband internet infrastructure to unserved and underserved rural, suburban, and urban communities, prioritizing those in “persistent poverty”
- $40 billion for new wastewater infrastructure, and over $25 billion for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Also in the mix is a surface transportation bill that funds roads and bridges and is up for its five-year reauthorization this year. The reauthorization bill is something that Republicans and Democrats alike see as having the potential for the most bipartisan compromise, and there has been some talk on Capitol Hill about passing a bipartisan roads and bridges infrastructure bill, and then putting the more ambitious pieces of Biden’s infrastructure plan into a budget reconciliation bill.
Beyond the main infrastructure bills in Congress, there are plenty of other bills that could be incorporated into a larger budget package. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has the CLEAN Future Act, which would put forward a clean electricity standard and lay out a pathway to decarbonize the US electricity sector by 2035. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) have a bill to create a dedicated Passenger Rail Trust Fund that would serve as a primary funding stream for Amtrak, rather than the appropriations money the rail system now receives.
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