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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 who attended the talks, called the Thursday discussion “very productive” and said “we’re ve...

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 attended the talks, called the Thursday discussion “very productive” and said “we’re very e...

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 and distribution -- from contact tracing, to user-friendly vaccine information, to real-time informa...

Presidents have been promising to fix this bridge for years. Now it's Biden's turn. Henry J. Gomez © Provided by NBC News President Joe Biden's $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 double the load the bridge — part of a busy North-South commerce corridor that ties into interstate...

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 they'll 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 for the $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan that Biden is unveiling on Wednesday. They want to see a ...