{"id":578662,"date":"2021-07-01T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578662"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:35:32","slug":"house-passes-715-surface-transportation-bill-amid-bipartisan-infrastructure-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-715-surface-transportation-bill-amid-bipartisan-infrastructure-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes $715 Surface Transportation Bill Amid Bipartisan Infrastructure Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-passes-715-surface-transportation-bill-amid-bipartisan-infrastructure-negotiations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House of Representatives passed its five-year surface transportation bill worth $715 billion Thursday as the White House and senators work to gather enough congressional support for their own infrastructure plan.<\/p>\n<p>The INVEST Act allocates $343 billion to roads, bridges and related safety measures, $109 billion to public transit, $95 billion to freight and passenger rail, $117 billion to drinking water infrastructure and $51 billion to wastewater infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed 221 to 201 on a near party-line vote.<\/p>\n<p>Its passage follows an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/biden-manchin-infrastructure-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreement<\/a> between President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators on a $579 billion infrastructure plan.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio, the chair of the House Transportation Committee and the House bill\u2019s author, has yet to say whether the House and Senate will work through the differences in the two bills in order to reach a compromise that is likely to pass both chambers, noting that details of the bipartisan agreement have yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate bipartisan deal is an outline, and it has good numbers,\u201d DeFazio said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CzKBZ3jMAT8\">press conference<\/a> Wednesday. \u201cI believe we could work out the spending levels in the bill, but there is no policy attached to their proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7163340\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7163340\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7163340\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232078353-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7163340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brent Spence Bridge, deemed \u201cfunctionally obsolete\u201d due to the amount of daily traffic it carries, spans the Ohio River on the Ohio-Kentucky border. (JEFF DEAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, however, has said that she will not bring a bipartisan infrastructure to the floor until the Senate passes a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/chuck-schumer-infrastructure-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reconciliation bill<\/a> with funding for climate change provisions, child care, education and other Democratic priorities. Biden also supports the reconciliation bill, but no Republicans have shown similar support. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/ilhan-omar-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-american-jobs-plan-chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Threaten To Sink Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Without A Complementary Reconciliation Package)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden said that both bills had to be passed \u201cin tandem\u201d last week, but <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/26\/biden-infrastructure-vow-veto-bipartisan-deal\/\">walked back his remarks<\/a> on Saturday after Senate Republicans objected and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/jerry-moran-joe-biden-lindsey-graham-mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened to withdraw their support<\/a> for the bipartisan bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy comments also created the impression that I was issuing a veto threat on the very plan I had just agreed to, which was certainly not my intent,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives passed its five-year surface transportation bill worth $715 billion Thursday as the White House and senators work to gather enough congressional support for their own infrastructure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313838,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Passes $715 Surface Transportation Bill Amid Bipartisan Infrastructure Negotiations","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232078353-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Passes $715 Surface Transportation Bill Amid Bipartisan Infrastructure Negotiations","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}