Thread: President Joe Biden

Biden hits road to tout infrastructure bill

President Biden needs no lessons in pitching voters on the importance of American ports, highways, bridges and rail. He’s been doing it for months. He did it as vice president during visits to Granite City, Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio; and Norfolk, Va. He gave an interview about infrastructure on Monday to a Cincinnati TV station. He’ll repeat it on Wednesday at the Port of Baltimore. And he’ll recap his points later this month when senators and House members from both parties stand shoulder to shoulder in the White House as the bill they helped write becomes a $1.2 trillion law.

In Kentucky on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) applauded the passage of the infrastructure bill he voted to support in August. “This will be the first time I have come up here in a quarter of a century where I thought maybe there was a way forward on the Brent Spence Bridge,” he said in remarks in Covington, Ky., where the much-discussed span stretching to Cincinnati has been declared functionally obsolete by the Federal Highway Administration since the 1990s (Kentucky Politics).

• Which Republican Senators Voted For The Infrastructure Bill?

Here are the 19 Republicans who voted in favor of the bill:

Roy Blunt, Missouri
Richard Burr, North Carolina
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
Susan Collins, Maine
Kevin Cramer, North Dakota
Mike Crapo, Idaho
Deb Fischer, Nebraska
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
Chuck Grassley, Iowa
John Hoeven, North Dakota
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Rob Portman, Ohio
James Risch, Idaho
Mitt Romney, Utah
Dan Sullivan, Alaska
Thom Tillis, North Carolina
Roger Wicker, Mississippi