House Democrats Optimistic Of Deal With Senate On Water Funding Bill

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House Democrats are optimistic they will reach agreement with the Senate on clean water infrastructure investments for EPA even while pushing a bill that authorizes higher funding levels than the Senate approved, pointing to offers from Senate Republicans during failed talks with President Joe Biden. During the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's (T&I) June 9 markup of H.R. 1915, where the committee approved the bill on a largely party-line vote, Democratic leaders said they plan to follow regular order and hold a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers' plans. "This bill is going to the Senate," T&I Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) said. "My intention is to have an actual conference committee," where differences between the Senate bill and the House bill will be negotiated into compromise legislation.