By Blake Haas
BLOOMINGTON – A central Illinois Republican congressman is defending his stance on why he voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
Even though the bill was passed with bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, Congressman Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville) said the bill was not the right vote for his district, which is why he voted ‘no.’
“When you look at what we’ve done in a bipartisan way when it comes to infrastructure investment, we’ve given on an annual basis up to nine times more to our airports, our transit systems, as part of our pandemic relief packages, than what those entities are going to get over the next five years in this $1.2 trillion bill.”
During the vote, 13 Republicans joined Democrats to pass the bill in the House.
“Everybody in D.C. knows that if they could have separated these bills out, it wasn’t a negotiating tactic between the far left and the moderate Democrats will cave and support this reckless spending in the House – this would have got many more Republican voters,” Davis told WJBC’s Scott Miller. “But, this is all part of Speaker Pelosi’s leadership, and all you have to do is listen to her comments, and you see right, and you see it.”
President Biden is expected to sign the infrastructure bill into law on Monday.
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