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GOP Senators See Possible Infrastructure Deal After Biden Talks Bloomberg 2 hrs ago © Bloomberg Construction Of Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge As Biden Releases Infrastructure Plan (Bloomberg) -- Republican senators say they’re encouraged about the the prospects for a deal with President Joe Biden on his $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal after an Oval Office meeting to negotiate over significant areas of disagreement. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, one of a half dozen senators...

GOP Senators See Possible Infrastructure Deal After Biden Talks Bloomberg 5/13/2021 © Bloomberg Construction Of Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge As Biden Releases Infrastructure Plan (Bloomberg) -- Republican senators say they’re encouraged about the prospects for a deal with President Joe Biden on his $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal after an Oval Office meeting to negotiate over significant areas of disagreement. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, one of a half dozen senators who...

What good data could have taught us during the pandemic: Capitol Letter Updated 8:00 AM; Today 8:00 AM Better data collection and distribution could have taught us a lot during the coronavirus pandemic. (NIAID-RML via AP)AP Facebook Share Rotunda Rumblings Lessons not learned: We’ve learned a lot of lessons during the last year of living through a pandemic. But we could have learned a lot more in Ohio if we had more data. Laura Hancock looked at the gaps in our public health data gathering ...

Presidents have been promising to fix this bridge for years. Now its Bidens turn. Henry J. Gomez © Provided by NBC News President Joe Bidens $2 trillion infrastructure proposal is the latest hope for a long-neglected bridge that politicians and business leaders have wanted to upgrade for decades. Each day, some 160,000 cars and trucks cross the Brent Spence Bridge, which carries commuters and freight over the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. That’s doub...

Businesses hail Biden public works plan, disdain tax increases Mark Niquette President Joe Biden U.S. business groups say they are thrilled that President Joe Biden is proposing massive new investment to upgrade crumbling U.S. infrastructure, but theyll be lobbying against raising the corporate tax rate to pay for it. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, and other business lobbies say they strongly oppose raising the corporate income tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent to pay f...

POLITICO Infrastructure push sets off feeding frenzy in Washington The White House’s rollout of the biggest infrastructure package in at least five decades has sparked a lobbying frenzy in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has privately told Democrats that she hopes the package can pass the House by the Fourth of July. | Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Link Copied President Joe Biden has laid down his opening bid on infrastructure: a sprawling and ambitious $2 trillion plan designed to re...

Biden’s infrastructure push sets off feeding frenzy in Washington POLITICO 9 hrs ago By Megan Cassella and Theodoric Meyer © Evan Vucci/AP Photo President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. President Joe Biden has laid down his opening bid on infrastructure: a sprawling and ambitious $2 trillion plan designed to rebuild the country’s roads and bridges, expand access t...

22:54 The associated delays on the I-71/75 corridor come just a couple months after the bridge reopened following a fiery crash involving a pair of semis that shut it down completely for six weeks, causing widespread traffic disruption across the Cincinnati metro area.  For more than a decade, there have been talks about a serious and possibly permanent project to ease the overcrowded span that connects Cincinnati to Covington via the interstates.  But not only have those talks stalled, Kentu...

The packages cost is expected to be in the trillions of dollars, according to previous Biden proposals. It would come on the heels of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief and stimulus package, which has triggered concerns in Washington over how the government might pay for a massive infrastructure initiative. Biden campaigned for president on a clean energy infrastructure plan that his team said would cost $2 trillion over four years. It included a push to make commuter trains, buses and passen...

Washington is gearing up for a battle over raising taxes as President Biden looks for a way to pay for his agenda while Republicans are planning to dig in their heels ahead of the 2022 elections.