With less than a week before the presidential election, attention in the nation’s capital is turning slowly to what might be accomplished during the “lame duck” - that period when legislative business is conducted after the voting has done but before the new Congress is sworn in.The rhetoric is hot right now, so hot it seems to have crowded out the possibility Democrats, Republicans, and outgoing President Barack Obama can agree on, well, anything. That’s only on the surface. Dig deeper and you’ll find politicians from Obama and Republican nominee Donald Trump to GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan and incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on down saying nice things about the need to do something drastic about the nation’s commercial infrastructure, which is badly in need of an upgrade.
America Needs a Smart Infrastructure Program