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Legislators of the House of Representatives adopted Friday night a infrastructure bill of approximately $ 1.2 billion to improve roads, bridges, pipelines, ports and nation’s Internet connections, overcoming its own internal divisions, to secure a long-awaited large federal investment and to provide President Joe Biden a major legislative victory.
The bipartisan vote of 228 – 206 closed at 11: 26 pm and marked the final milestone for the first of two major pieces on the president’s economic agenda, according to NPR.
Passage of the House Infrastructure Bill sends to Biden’s desk an expanding economic initiative that could inject money into the 50 states and fulfill the president’s campaign promise to 2020 to rejuvenate the economy after the coronavirus pandemic and “ rebuild better ”the country.
The legislation was approved by the Senate in August, but stalled in the House as Democrats attempted to negotiate a deal on a separate $ 1.9 trillion economic package, another key component of the Biden’s agenda that many Democrats had linked to the fate of the infrastructure bill.
The infrastructure bill is the largest investment of resources federal infrastructure projects ture in more than a decade.
The legislation will deliver $ 550 $ 1 billion of new federal investments in America’s infrastructure over five years, including money for highways, bridges, mass transit, railroads, airports, ports, and waterways.
The package includes an investment of $ 65 $ 1 billion to improve the country’s broadband infrastructure and invest tens of billions of dollars to improve the electrical grid and water systems.
Another $ 7.5 billion dollars would go to the construction of a national network of plug-in electric vehicle chargers, according to the text of the bill .
The infrastructure plan and the social spending plan in the Lower House this Friday, as announced Thursday night,
The president of the Lower House, Nancy Pelosi, relented on Friday afternoon and announced that her goal was to achieve the approval of the infrastructure plan and start the debate on the social plan, instead of approving it , an idea that was immediately rejected by the progressive wing of the party.
The nightly vote on infrastructure in the House of Representatives followed an agreement between factions of the Dem Party ocrat, as moderate members issued more assurances that they would pass the “Build Back Better” social spending plan bill when it is put to the vote.