{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://suozzi.house.gov/media/press-releases/suozzi-delivers-billions-infrastructure-funding-long-island-queens-and-new", "SUOZZI DELIVERS BILLIONS IN INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING TO LONG ISLAND, QUEENS AND NEW YORK UNDER BIDEN\u2019S BUILD BACK BETTER AGENDA", "2021-11-06", "2021", "2021-11", "Democrat", "House", "NY", "Thomas R. Suozzi", "S001201", "suozzi.house.gov", "suozzi", "https://suozzi.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Congressman Tom Suozzi released the following statement after the House passed a bold infrastructure package, delivering on President Biden\u2019s promise to the American people. As the Vice-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus, Suozzi helped negotiate the bipartisan infrastructure package that will create millions of high paying union jobs and send billions of dollars to repair New York\u2019s highways, roads, bridges, airports \u2013 as well as to install hundreds of electric vehicle charging ports.\n\n\u201cI was proud to help negotiate and help pass a once in a generation bipartisan infrastructure bill that will be delivered to President Biden\u2019s desk,\u201d said Suozzi. \u201cThis bold legislation will actually help real people address some of the real problems that they face. A major infrastructure bill has eluded the past four presidents, and we finally got it done with 215 Democrats and 13 Republicans!\"\n\nBelow is a list of specific funding New York will receive from the once in a generation bipartisan infrastructure package:\n\nHighway Funding: 12.5 $billion specifically for New York\n\n$11.5 billion for surface transportation (roads, highways, etc.)\n\n$1.9 billion from a new vehicular bridge repair formula program\n\n$142 million for EV charging infrastructure\n\nAirport Funding: nearly $1 billion for New York\n\nJFK $294,682,575\n\nLGA $ 150,008,970\n\nLong Island MacArthur $21,595,630\n\nRepublic $ 3,735,000\n\nEast Hampton $1,480,000\n\nBrookhaven $1,480,000\n\nNew York Rail\n\n$16 Billion for Amtrak National capital backlog needs - $688 million: will save NYS its contribution to replacing the Amtrak railcars that operate upstate\n\n$6 Billion for Amtrak - Northeast Corridor (NEC) \u2013 capitol backlog of the NEC including the Gateway project\n\n$24 billion for Norther East Corridor Modernization \u2013 competitive grants that Gateway, Metro-North Penn Access, and East River tunnels are eligible for.\n\n$12 billion for Intercity passenger rail including upgrades for high speed rail.\n\nNew York Water\n\nAt least 90 billion for water infrastructure including\n\n$14.7 billion for the EPA\u2019s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund which provides capitalization grants to states for loans supporting water infrastructure projects.\n\n$14.7 billion for the EPA\u2019s Clean Water State Revolving Funds which provides loans to states for water quality improvement projects.\n\n$55.4 billion in supplemental emergency appropriations for both the EPA state for capitalization grants through the Clean Water State Revolving Funds and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds\n\nPublic Transportation\n\n$9.8 billion for Clean Buses and Mass Transit\n\nBroadband", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://suozzi.house.gov/media/press-releases/suozzi-delivers-billions-infrastructure-funding-long-island-queens-and-new"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8556682150810957, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}