water projects for the next year. they will go ahead with nine new projects and begin work or move forward on another 30 projects. we expect members back for votes at 9:00 p.m. easliveoverage whes return. here is more about the water projects bill. the house is debating legislation to authorize water infrastructure project. the water resourcesment of thell us about some key details of this bill and its overall purpose. >> thanks for having me. the water bill is something congress tries every two years, they have made it a priority since the chairman bill shuster took over. what it do is authorize army corps of engineers projects. ecosystem, floodion, ports,

protection, all the things that the c they aretudyin project, the army corps comes up with projects that are good to go or are good investments and they hand the list to congress and this is a bill in which congress says, ok, your authorized to go and do that. go andare authorized to do that. >> this came on a bipartisan voi vote.partisan whates for potential bipartisan support on the house flr? over the last two congresses in 2014 and 2016, the past water s, they passed by overwhelming majorities. i would expect something similar this time around. pretty noncontroversial for the

most part and authoring projects. this one authorized seven ojects, that is less than last -- the last few years. it is the kind of thing that a lot of members can support. methe house rules committee apoving 50 amendments for consideration for the water bill. s y amendments we will see. >> most of the amendments are fairly minor. a ofheare p ,pecic so they will say telling e court to expedite a artain project or expedite study or something else. some of them adjust the cost share between the federal and nonfederal partners, which isars projects. one of the bigst amendments was one that was not made in order byhe rules committee. that was by the ranking member and chair of the water resources

subcommittee in the house. that woulde i similar to a provisionncluded in the base bill. it would make it spng, not subject to appropriation. lecommittee. made an order b .t was an interestingoment thaiee going out ther and testifying at rules in favor of this amendment. it is not supporter -supported by hisspleure expresd by democrats on the very same issue. what about in the senate, where do the their infrastructure, their water frtructure built, and the white house question mark how viewthat white house congresses efforts so far in this area? >> on the senate side, like the house,y have gotten the bill through committee. , is a much broader bill

about three times as long as the house version. pjects andthings other than pritetsnto other water policy issues. it is through the committee, leader mcconnell in announcing the augustess would be or yesterday, the water bill over there, the act is one of the things on the to do list in the senate. -- i expectto have that to get to theat f as the white house goes, theyut a statement of administration policy in favor of the house bill. they do not know -- have a statement on the senate side as far as i know. the support, theout a pkage o infrastructure bhat th ite hou and congressional republicans have been touting. we saw initily all of two

years ago, we ght we might see a big, broad infrastructure bill dealing with policy across a number of different modes of infrastructure. early there -- earlier this year, kery said what we would do is break up infrastructure into several different bills. a feralation authorization, this is a water infrastructure bill and one more piece of what threblans in congress hope to do for infrastrucre. >> you can follow his at cq.com and at twitter. thanks for the update. >> we expe the house to return tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern for votes on the water project bill. it was a measure that wld fera state and local communities to deal with gang violence. the house isive here on

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