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WASHINGTON 鈥?President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Senate Democrats to stick together on his massive infrastructure proposal to both rebuild the nation roads and enact a broad array of social programs, such as new Medicare benefits, child care assistance and immigration reform.Biden visited Capitol Hill a day after a group of Democrats said their social program bill, which Democrats plan to enact on a stric yeezy t party-line vote, would total $3.5 trillion.We ;re going to get this done, Biden said as he arrived for the Senate Democrats ; lunch in the Capitol.Added to the approximately $600 billion earmarked for hard infrastructure that Biden hopes to enact on a bipartisan basis, the whole package would amount to $4.1 trillion in new spending.Democrats are on fragile footing as they try to push the bills ahead in the coming weeks. Biden challenge will be preserving support from progressives, who originally wanted $6 trillion in new spending, and centrists, who wanted a smaller price tag and an assurance that it is entirely paid for.Biden needs the support of at least 10 Senate Republicans on the bipartisan infrastructure plan in order to air max plus pass it.We know we have a long road to go, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday.The $3.5 trillion proposal only exists as a framework, with details to be negotiated in the weeks to come. Democrats plan to include a massive expansion of Me yeezy dicare to cover d Tmny Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 10 more of Donald Trump s former aides
The Wiscasset man who died Sunday was the seventh person to be killed in a snowmobile crash in stanley website Maine in a little more than a month, and the third in three days, making this winter an above-average season for snowmobile-related deaths.Over the past decade, there have been about six fatal crashes involving snowmobiles per winter, according to Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service. The season starts about late fall to early winter and can end as late as April in some parts of the state. Theyre not something you can track as consistently as motor vehicle crashes, MacDonald said. The fatalities fluctuate a lot depending on the conditions. More snow usually means more crashes, according to past years of data, MacDonald said. In 2003, an above-average snow season, there were 16 fatal snowmobile crashes, whic owala h was the highest of any winter on record.All of the crashes this year have been in rural pa owala cup rts of the state and most of them in the northern half.Speeding is the most common reason snowmobilers are killed when they crash, MacDonald said, with alcohol being the second most common factor. In Sundays crash, the Wiscasset mans snowmobile was traveling fast when he hit a dense angular block of ice called a pressure ridge. Our message usually is people need to maintain speed when they can properly slow down, MacDonald said. Its often riders that are going too fast to react to conditions. Two snowmobilers died Friday in separate locations. A Pennsylvania woman died near R |
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