Stakeholders optimistic water bill passes by end of year
Inland waterway stakeholders are banking on bipartisanship to get a major bill across the finish line in a lame duck session.
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which sets policy for water projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is authorized every two years. It passed the House earlier this summer by a voice vote, and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved it unanimously in May.
The bipartisan nature of this authorizing bill is why Alexa Combelic, director of government affairs for the American Soybean Association, thinks it will have a solid chance of passing even after the November election.
“I don’t foresee a situation where it happens before the election, but it’s certainly one of the few pieces of legislation that I really think has a chance of moving in the lame duck,” Combelic said on an Agri-Pulse, United Soybean Board, and American Soybean Association webinar last week.
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The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which sets policy for water projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is authorized every two years. It passed the House earlier this summer by a voice vote, and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved it unanimously in May.
The bipartisan nature of this authorizing bill is why Alexa Combelic, director of government affairs for the American Soybean Association, thinks it will have a solid chance of passing even after the November election.
“I don’t foresee a situation where it happens before the election, but it’s certainly one of the few pieces of legislation that I really think has a chance of moving in the lame duck,” Combelic said on an Agri-Pulse, United Soybean Board, and American Soybean Association webinar last week.
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