WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), founding Co-Chair of the Senate's first-ever Environmental Justice Caucus, successfully secured several key priorities that would expand access to clean, safe and reliable water for Illinois families in the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2026, which passed unanimously out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). This bill builds upon multiple legacy programs from Senator Duckworth's Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act (DWWIA) of 2021, which was signed into law as a part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that provided the single largest investment in Ameri...