Partisan Battle Lines Drawn on Water Infrastructure Bill

摘要

The outlines of an upcoming partisan fight over Congress' biennial water resources bill are becoming clear after a series of hearings on Capitol Hill this week.Republicans indicated they want the bill to speed up the protracted federal approval process for water projects, with a specific focus on curtailing years-long environmental reviews. Democrats, however, signaled that their favored solution to an infrastructure backlog totaling tens of billions of dollars is to simply allocate more funding to these projects.