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Shaky bipartisanship kicks off infrastructure talks Source: By Nick Sobczyk, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) (far left), Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and aides yesterday. Francis Chung/E&E News
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee struck a bipartisan tone on infrastructure and climate legislation yesterday, but lawmakers still have few answers for sticky questions about pay-fors and scale.
Senators from both parties said during a hearing they’re hoping to craft a bipartisan bill that invests in crumbling highways and bridges and vastly expands the nation’s electric vehicle infrastructure.
“We’ve been working on these issues for quite some time,” he said Wednesday. “The majority leader will make the decision specifically on what comes next, but he and the president know that I have tax proposals that we’re fine-tuning and honing in the Senate that are very much in sync with what the president has been talking about.”
“My approach to legislating is to not front-run my colleagues,” he said. “I think the broad kind of framework has been pretty clear. I think we have two tax systems in America. I want one that gives everybody a chance to get ahead.”
Democrats hesitant to raise taxes amid pandemic
In a webinar on Wednesday, Manchin also expressed concern with the nation’s debt level and touted the importance of infrastructure.
He told American Council for Capital Formation President and CEO Mark Bloomfield that the U.S. “is closing quickly on $28 trillion in national debt. … We are going to have to pay for whatever we do.”
“Sooner or later, we’ve got to pay,” Manchin added, “Nobody likes taxes, I know that. Well, if you like your water and your sewer and your road and everything you receive and the food and all the amenities you have in life, maybe you better figure out how we’re going to be able to do it.”
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