IN THE STATES: Democrats’ Tout Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in Senate Battleground States

Voters in key Senate battleground states are reading and watching how Democrats like Sens. Cortez Masto, Hassan, Kelly and Warnock delivered for their constituents by securing “billions in critical funding for their states” in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that will grow millions of good-paying jobs and invest in America’s roads, bridges, clean drinking water, and high-speed internet.

See for yourself: 

AZ – KOLD: Infrastructure bill brings billions to Arizona, Tucson

• Just a day after the US Senate passed the $1 Trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, Sen. Mark Kelly was home in Tucson touting its success and the value to the region.

• According to Senate Kelly, the infrastructure bill will cut a $5.3 billion check to the Arizona Department of Transportation. The financial breakdown also shows Tucson transit will get $118 million for SunTran and Sun Link, the modern streetcar. 

• There will be another $10 million to help the city clean PFAS out of the cities’ drinking water.

AZ – KOLD:

“Under the infrastructure bill the feds will cut the Arizona Department of Transportation a nearly five and a half billion dollars check… and $110 billion for roads and bridges will help some long time needed shelved projects Tucson could not otherwise afford.”

GA  –  Capitol Beat News Service: US Senate approves infrastructure bill with more than $11B headed to Georgia

• The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan infrastructure spending bill Tuesday that would steer more than $11 billion toward highways, transit, airports and electric vehicle charging stations in Georgia.

GA – Stars and Stripes: Infrastructure Bill Contains Highway Expansion to Connect 12 Military Bases in Five Southern States

• A proposed stretch of interstate highway that would connect a dozen military bases between Texas and Georgia made its way into the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate this week with the expectation it will improve access to bases located in some of the more isolated stretches of the South.

• Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., proposed the amendment to the bill with support from the other eight senators in the five affected states.

• “This planned route would connect military installations across Georgia and drive economic opportunities to our rural communities,” Warnock said.

NH – Seacoast Current: Hassan Shows How NH Benefits From Infrastructure Bill

• US Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., visited the Hampton Wastewater Treatment Plant on Friday, one of the facilities she says will benefit from the federal infrastructure bill being negotiated in Congress.

• The $1.2 trillion spending bill focuses on passenger rail, high-speed internet access, coastal resilience, clean energy, and cybersecurity. $54 billion is earmarked to strengthen water infrastructure for communities in New Hampshire and across the country. 

NH – Reuters: U.S. Democrats ride trains, buses to spotlight spending push

• After visiting a wastewater treatment plant on Friday, New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan said the infrastructure bill would clean up toxic perfluoroalkyl chemicals and “help bring peace of mind to parents who should not have to worry about whether the water flowing from their tap is safe for their children.”

NH – Portsmouth Herald: ‘Game-changer’: Sen. Hassan touts infrastructure bill and how it could help Hampton

• The bipartisan infrastructure bill increases funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, which will help provide needed financial assistance to towns like Hampton that are upgrading their water systems.

• Additionally, the bipartisan bill includes Hassan’s measure to better ensure that New Hampshire towns would be eligible for an advanced technology grant program that can be used to remove PFAS from drinking water.

NV – KOLO:

“Senator Cortez Masto: It’s about jobs at the end of the day. It’s about good paying jobs, long term. Things that are good for our economy and being prepared and being able to embrace that new technology for the 21st century. “

NV – KOLO: Senator Cortez Masto says infrastructure bill will impact Nevadans’ lives

• Today Nevada U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto came to the Northern Nevada Electrical Training Center to learn…how this program and others can benefit from the 1 Trillion Dollar infrastructure bill.

• Inside a room with solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries to store the energy they create, Senator Cortez Masto says this is the energy of the future. She says people will need to build what will make up the 21st century energy grid, as well as maintain it.

• Investment in the creation and training will come from the infrastructure bill which will in turn she says mean good paying jobs.

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