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Any potholes filled in among other sweeping infrastructure proposals. but in that interview with garrett hague, joe manchin says that he is not budging on any plan that would allow democrats to go to alone on major legislation including infrastructure which the president hopes to make his signature policy. garrett hague is joining us now from morgantown, west virginia. and i know that you talked to him last night. i just came from newark, new jersey where a lot of guys are digging up streets because they are replacing lead pipes. they would be very happy to move on to any other state if this i...
Credit steve carmody / Michigan Radio Members of Michigan’s congressional delegation are among those waiting to see if a deal can be cut between the Biden administration and Republican leaders on a major infrastructure bill. President Joe Biden met for nearly an hour Wednesday with the top Republican negotiator on infrastructure, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. Time is running out to strike a bipartisan deal, but they have agreed to reconnect Friday. The president is proposing $1.7 trillion for roads, bridges and other investments. The Republicans countered last week with $928 billion, and Sen...
There are things, for example, that weren't included in their counterproposal that i know for a fact there's a good number of republican support. for example, in my realm, many my column, investment in the transmission grid, i think there's broad bipartisan support we need to do that. same thing with the investment in the water infrastructure that leads to people's houses, if it includes lead pipes. there are things like that in the american jobs plan that have not been part of the republican dow counterproposal. >> how much does there need to be movement? you talk about movement on the action...
Country, coast to coast. the biden infrastructure bill would wildly expand our electric vehicle charging stations. it will build 100 percent broadband access for everybody in the country. even in the most rural areas. it would shore up our ridge ridiculously fragile electric grid. it would puts of tons of people to work with doing things like replacing lead pipes in everybody's water systems. cleaning up abandoned oil oil wells, mines, gas wealth. sealing them up. there's a lot of work to be done there. we should do a lot of it. the average hospital in this country is about 11 years old. the a...