Tulsa World
By Randy Krehbiel
August 10, 2021
U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford of Oklahoma both voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday.
Inhofe was upset that the bill bypassed the usual committee process — one in which he usually figures prominently on transportation matters — and because his amendment to add $50 billion in defense-related spending was not accepted.
He also didn’t like the bill’s incentives for electric vehicles and other environmental initiatives and what Inhofe said was the prioritization of mass transit over roads and highways
“Instead of working to build a real, substantive infrastructure bill, these sideshow negotiations produced a grab-bag of bad policy decisions that weren’t vetted,” Inhofe said.
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