An important water-resources measure is starting to move in Congress, with key senators’ introduction of a bill that would authorize $2.4 billion in federal funds to help construct six new Army Corps of Engineers infrastructure projects.
The two-year bill, which Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced on May 8, has bipartisan support and counts the committee’s ranking Democrat, Tom Carper (Del.), among its initial co-sponsors. (View section-by-section summary of bill here. View full bill text here.)