IN THE BATTLEGROUNDS: Wall-to-Wall Coverage Highlights Democrats’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & GOP Opposition

Voters in Senate battlegrounds are continuing to read and watch wall-to-wall coverage of Democrats’ infrastructure law that will grow millions of good-paying jobs and help America out-compete other countries by investing in our roads, bridges, clean drinking water, and high-speed internet — and how GOP Senate candidates are opposing these popular policies.

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AZ-KYMA: Arizona Senator Kelly announces over $100 million in water infrastructure funds

• “These funds from our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will create good-paying jobs, clean up harmful PFAS contaminants, and upgrade and modernize Arizona’s aging water systems so that families and small businesses across the state can access clean, reliable drinking water now and in the future,” stated Senator Mark Kelly, who helped draft the law’s water infrastructure provisions.

• Senator Kelly has been working to repair water structures by helping pass the $1.2 trillion agreement for the infrastructure law.

AZ-KYMA: EPA announces over $109 million in water infrastructure funding for Arizona

• This funding comes from the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which will allow the SRF programs to create jobs, upgrade water infrastructures and address key challenges.

• The EPA will allocate $109,458,000 towards Arizona.

AZ-Arizona Daily Sun (Opinion): Sen. Mark Kelly: Northern Arizona to benefit from increased wildfire mitigation, better roads thanks to infrastructure law

• Not only is this bill going to put Arizonans to work upgrading and modernizing our infrastructure, it will increase wildland firefighter pay and improve the way we prevent, fight, and recover from wildfires.

• Of course, this infrastructure bill will have an impact in northern Arizona beyond improving our response to wildfires: enhanced safety on rural roads, upgraded water infrastructure, and expanded high-speed internet access in rural communities and small towns are some of the results you can expect.

FL-Spectrum News: Organized labor says infrastructure bill will be a boon for Tampa

• Both of Florida’s U.S. GOP Senators – Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, opposed the bill, as did every Florida Republican in the U.S. House.

• Local labor union heads say the law means more jobs for working Floridians.

• The new law is expected to bring Florida $13.1 billion for federal-aid highway apportioned programs, $245 million for bridge replacement and repairs, and $2.6 billion to improve public transportation options, according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House earlier this year.

FL-Spectrum News: Federal infrastructure bill sending $198 million to Florida to increase availability of EV charging

• Florida is estimated to receive $198 million of the $7.5 billion allocated to build out the nation’s electric-vehicle (EV) charging framework in the recently passed federal Infrastructure and Jobs Act.

GA-WALB:

“Roughly 11 million dollars will be coming to Albany over the next five years.”

GA–Albany Herald: Democrats praise Biden, infrastructure law

• Speakers emphasized how the infrastructure bill will create thousands of good-paying union jobs, stimulate the economy, and revitalize the state’s roads, bridges, and highways — leaving no Georgia community behind.

• “Here in Albany and across southwest Georgia, infrastructure has been neglected for decades too long,” state Rep. CaMia Jackson, D-Albany, said.

• “So the question is: Why do Georgia Republicans oppose this popular, landmark legislation? While 32 Republicans in Congress put aside their partisanship for the good of our nation, Herschel Walker and Georgia’s eight congressional Republicans are standing against our jobs. They’re standing against our roads and our bridges. They’re standing against our economic recovery. And they’re standing against what’s best for our state.”

GA-WFXL: State representatives travel to Southwest Georgia to address new Bipartisan Law

• State representatives traveled to Southwest Georgia Tuesday morning to celebrate President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that was passed last month.

• The law will deliver millions of dollars to Georgia to ensure that every family has access to reliable high-speed internet through a historic investment in broadband infrastructure without raising taxes for the middle-class families.

GA-WSWG: State representatives speak on new infrastructure law

• The Democratic Party of Georgia travelled to Southwest Georgia to celebrate the passing of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

• Along with well-paying jobs, revitalization of bridges, highways and roads, more affordable and reliable broadband will be more accessible.

GA-WJBF:

“Augusta Democrats are speaking out about the federal infrastructure bill. Millions of dollars are expected to come to the city.”

GA-WRDW:

“Today Georgia Democrats held a press conference to talk about what the bipartisan infrastructure project will do not just for the state, but also Augusta. They talked about how they’re improving lives here at home.”

GA-WFXG:

“So the people of Georgia, though, ask, ‘Why did Georgia Republicans stand in the way of opportunity? Why are Georgia Republicans obstructing jobs coming to our area?’”

GA-Augusta Chronicle (Opinion) : Johnson: Bipartisan infrastructure bill is a generational investment in Richmond County

• Thankfully, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law last month, made possible by Georgia’s Democratic members of Congress and Senators Reverend Warnock and Ossoff, which will devote billions of dollars to fixing our state’s roads, bridges, and highways before it’s too late—all while creating a generation of good-paying jobs for Georgians.

NV-KTNV: Federal, state, local officials highlight impact of infrastructure bill on water loss in Las Vegas

• Federal, state, and local leaders gathered to decide how to best spend hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to Nevada for water conservation by the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.

• The consensus was clear: Federal infrastructure is critical to solving the continued loss of water in the Colorado River and Lake Mead.

NV-Review Journal: Infrastructure bill set to charge Nevada’s electric vehicle system

• The federal infrastructure bill recently signed into law is set to charge up Nevada’s electric vehicle system.

NV-AP: Freeway expansions among projects coming to Nevada with new infrastructure bill funding

• Officials say Nevada’s share of new funding provided by the recently approved federal infrastructure legislation likely will help pay for a range of projects, including expansions of the freeway system, transit improvements, and new technology to connect mobility systems.

• Priorities set in the state’s transportation plan include equitably meeting long-term needs of all transportation users, including cyclists, drivers, pedestrians, and public transit users.

NH-AP: New Hampshire getting $72.6M to update water systems

• New Hampshire will be getting $72.6 million from the federal infrastructure package to update wastewater and drinking water systems.

• The money also will be used to address PFAS and lead in New Hampshire water supplies.

NH-Concord Monitor: How federal funds will bolster NH infrastructure

• Now that President Joe Biden has signed the trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, well over a billion of those dollars are headed to New Hampshire.

• The funding package will address a wide range of needs in New Hampshire, including bridge, highway and sewer projects, broadband, airports and clean energy initiatives.

NC-Port City Daily: Along the river, Democrats tout Biden’s infrastructure bill, PFAS cleanup dollars and party win

• North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Bobbie Richardson criticized the Republicans who didn’t support the bill. She accused Congressman Ted Budd, former Governor Pat McCrory and former Congressman Mark Walker, all of whom were against the bill, of opposing “investments in North Carolina and Wilmington clean drinking water.”

• “If they had their way, North Carolina would not see one dime of this money,” she said.

NC-WLOS: Broadband expansion plans draw praise from WNC leaders

• North Carolina is expected to get $100 million from President Joe Biden’s newly-passed infrastructure package. Part of that money will be used to expand broadband internet access in our community.

• Some of this money will also support low-income families afford internet access — that’s about 31 percent of North Carolinians.

NC-Blue Ridge Public Radio: Infrastructure bill could help ease WNC’s most nagging problem – internet access

• A bipartisan group of Western North Carolina leaders hailed the recently passed federal infrastructure bill as a way to make significant progress on one of the region’s most pressing problems – internet access.

• Under the infrastructure bill, North Carolina will receive at least $100 million to help with broadband.

NC-WWAY:

“The new infrastructure law allocates $10 billion to clean water nationwide. This is the biggest national investment the federal government has made in water ever.”

NC-WECT:

“Leaders say some of the federal funding will help residents in Southeastern North Carolina, who are exposed to PFAS-contaminated drinking water for decades. It’s an historic amount of money to tackle what the Cape Fear riverkeeper calls ‘the issue of our time.’”

NC-WHQR: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will bring historic investments to clean water, including PFAS mitigation

• The Biden Administration’s recent infrastructure bill will provide billions of dollars to address drinking water contamination, including from emerging contaminants like PFAS.

• $1 billion of the funding is set to help wastewater utilities prevent PFAS discharges into rivers- a known contamination source for the Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear.

• The other $9 billion is focused on drinking water and water infrastructure improvements through state revolving funds and EPA grants.

OH-WKBN: Local leaders celebrate historic infrastructure bill

• The Ohio Democratic Party along with Youngstown workers and the United Steel Workers Union celebrated the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Friday.

• It includes money for things such as roads, bridges, safe water, broadband internet and more. It will also bring lots of new jobs to the area.

OH-WLIO: Mayor-Elect Smith and Union leaders talk about benefits of federal infrastructure bill

• Lima City officials and union leaders tout the local benefit of the $1 trillion federal infrastructure improvement plan.

PA-WHTM: Democratic officials, labor leaders praise Infrastructure impact on York County

• Democratic officials and labor leaders are emphasizing the positive impact President Biden’s infrastructure plan will have in York County.

• They say it’ll bring major enhancements to local communities without raising taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 per year. Among those enhancements, badly needed upgrades to the streets of York City.

PA-Philadelphia Inquirer: Pa. will get $240M, and N.J. $169M, for clean water issues under bipartisan infrastructure bill

• The federal EPA has announced that Pennsylvania will receive $240 million and New Jersey will get almost $169 million to improve water infrastructure, tackling lingering issues such as environmental justice and contamination from “forever chemicals.”

• The money comes from the historic $1 trillion bipartisan bill signed by President Joe Biden last month.

PA-BCTV: Infrastructure Bill’s Broadband Funds to Support Rural Pennsylvanians

• The trillion-dollar infrastructure bill passed by Congress last month includes $65 billion to provide better internet access to rural and low-income communities.

• Pennsylvanians see the internet as a necessity to their economic future.

PA-The Daily Item: Infrastructure bill targets ‘digital divide’

• Under the $1 trillion infrastructure bill recently signed into law by President Joe Biden, Pennsylvania will receive at least $100 million to help provide broadband internet coverage to more than 390,000 Pennsylvanians currently living without it, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., said during a conference call this week.

• This direct assistance to eligible residents could become one of the most significant aspects of the plan.

WI-Cap Times: Opinion | After years of GOP failures, Dems are delivering for Wisconsin workers

• Despite every single Wisconsin Republican voting against federal funding that will stimulate the Wisconsin economy for years to come, Biden and Wisconsin Democrats kept their promises to voters by delivering a plan that will make our roads and bridges safer, that addresses systemic racism ingrained in the frequent inadequacy of public transportation, that will ensure clean drinking water in every household and school, and will connect communities across the state with access to reliable, high-speed internet.

WI-Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin receives $142M to combat water challenges under bipartisan infrastructure law

• Federal environmental regulators have announced Wisconsin will receive $142.7 million to target removal of lead pipes, harmful forever chemicals and water challenges in underserved communities as part of the first allocation under the bipartisan infrastructure law.

• The funding under the infrastructure bill represents the single largest investment in water infrastructure in decades.

WI-La Crosse Tribune: Sen. Baldwin: WI to receive more than $142M for water infrastructure, address PFAS

• The state of Wisconsin is expected to receive $142.7 million from the infrastructure bill that will specifically invest in rebuilding water infrastructure, including projects related to the PFAS crisis, Sen. Tammy Baldwin announced on Friday.

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