U.S. Senate agrees to fast-track permitting for border bridges after push from Cruz, other Texans.

U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations adopted U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment to streamline the presidential permitting process for building key bridges across the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, Texas. The amendment, which was included in a bill authorizing funding for the State Department, secures a critical step in Sen. Cruz’s bicameral, bipartisan effort to see four international bridges that will help create jobs, increase trade, and improve the environment are built.  

The fix was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate passed on an 86-11 vote Thursday night. Both Texas senators supported the legislation.

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