DC: Ryan: Infrastructure Plan Will Come in 'Five or Six Different Bills'
March 9, 2018
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that Congress will tackle an infrastructure overhaul in multiple pieces of legislation this year, dealing a blow to President Trump’s push for a $1.5 trillion rebuilding package.
Source The Hill
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that Congress will tackle an infrastructure overhaul in multiple pieces of legislation this year, dealing a blow to President Trump’s push for a $1.5 trillion rebuilding package.
Congress will begin working on legislation in a week and a half and pass the bills into the summer, Ryan said.
The speaker pointed to two pieces of must-pass legislation: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization and the omnibus spending package lawmakers are currently negotiating ahead of a March 23 deadline. The current FAA reauthorization is up March 31, but Congress is likely to pass a temporary fix in the spending bill before a formal reauthorization this summer.
