The roads, bridges, projects CT hopes Biden infrastructure plan funds
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A northbound Metro-North train passes across the railroad bridge spanning Cos Cob Harbor in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Conn. Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. The state Department of Transportation said replacing the bridge is a priority project for federal funding from President Joe Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
WASHINGTON Connecticut’s Department of Transportation has already drawn up a list of priority projects they hope will secure funding from President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package that he proposed two weeks ago.
State officials want to nab a bit of the $621 billion earmarked for transportation projects to reduce congestion on I-84 in Danbury, build new bus systems in New Haven, Bridgeport and Stamford, replace three bridges on the New Haven rail line, and upgrade the Stamford Transportation Center, according to a
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden sought to demonstrate his much-touted interest in working with Republicans in Congress on Monday, with a bipartisan White House meeting as lawmakers prepared to grapple with his $2.3 trillion proposal to improve U.S. infrastructure.
The Democratic president appears to be losing political capital with 10 Senate Republicans who have signaled an openness to working with Democrats, according to aides and observers. Those Republicans include Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, whose support could give him the votes to pass bipartisan legislation.
Biden’s party narrowly controls the House of Representatives and the Senate, meaning he can ill afford to lose Democratic votes. That has emboldened Democratic moderates such as Senator Joe Manchin, who have outsized influence over his legislative priorities.
Bangsamoro officials hold talks with president, others to extend time for transition authority Riyaz Ul Khaliq | 04.04.2021
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will personally meet the Senate president and Congress Speaker to decide on extending the limit of the Bangsamoro Transitional Authority (BTA) until 2025, sources said.
“President Duterte will now decide about an extension in the BTA beyond 2022,” government sources told Anadolu Agency.
Last week, sources said representatives from the regional Bangsamoro government met virtually with Duterte, Cabinet members, Philippines Senate president and the Congress speaker.
“Everyone supported the move to extend the transition period and hold elections in 2025,” they said. “There was only one objection the governor of Sulu province [of Bangsamoro].”
NRSC chairman Sen. Rick Scott of Florida handed the small silver award to Trump who was dressed as if he just walked off the golf course on Friday at the ex-president s club in Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate minority leader, would likely resume his former role as majority leader if the NRSC and other groups manage to help elect enough Republicans during the 2022 midterms to overcome the Senate s current 50-50 split between the parties. Vice President
Kamala Harris tie-breaking vote in the Senate gives Democrats majority control in the upper chamber of Congress.
Joe Biden s electoral victory.
Trump has falsely claimed since November that he won the election, and that only widespread ballot fraud made it seem that Biden had won.
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Sen. Roger Wicker downplayed the odds of an infrastructure deal that included rolling back Trump s tax cuts.
He called it an impossible sell among Republicans on Monday.
Wicker met with Biden to discuss his jobs plan along with other Republicans and Democrats.
Sen. Roger Wicker of Kansas, the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, downplayed the prospect of a bipartisan deal on President Joe Biden s infrastructure plan that included rolling back the 2017 Trump tax cuts. It would be an almost impossible sell from the president to come to a bipartisan agreement that included the undoing of that signature [law], Wicker said. And I did tell him that.