Senator Murray Speaks on Senate Floor on $600 Million Mega Grant Award for I-5 Bridge Replacement

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about $600 million in federal funding to replace the aging I-5 Bridge connecting Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The funding for the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) Program—the organization tasked with replacing the I-5 Bridge—comes from the Mega Grant Program established in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; Senator Murray helped negotiate and pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as Assistant Majority Leader and wrote the provisions in the law that provided advance funding for the Mega program.