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Committee Approves Six Bills and Four Nominations

Statement

Date: June 16, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Transportation Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved six bills and four nominations, which are now all subject to approval by the full Senate.

Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) provided the following statement on committee approval of the Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021:

"The main focus of today's markup is the Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021, and Senator Wicker and I introduced this legislation last week. It makes a big down payment, $78 billion, on rebuilding and revamping our nation's critical transportation infrastructure, a key to our economic future and creating more jobs."


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