Lawmakers’ last-minute push for infrastructure funding

Published July 11, 2016 4:01am ET



Time is running out for a major bill that could help update the country’s water systems.

With Congress set to leave the Capitol at the end of this week for a summer break lengthened by the Republican and Democratic conventions later this month, lawmakers pushing the House and Senate versions of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 are trying to get their colleagues to take up bills largely viewed as nonpartisan.

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