Wisconsin Senators Split on Infrastructure Bill

Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 -- 10:00 AM

(Bob Hague, WRN) Wisconsin's U-S Senators split their votes, on President Joe Biden's roughly one trillion dollar infrastructure investment plan.

Nineteen Republicans voted with Democrats to approve the bill and send it to the House for consideration. Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Oshkosh was not among them.

On "Fox Business" Tuesday morning, Johnson called the bill "disastrous," and said he had "no idea why Republicans would want to have any of their fingerprints" on it. Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin said "the Senate has finally turned the ‘Infrastructure Week’ talk of the past into real action.

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