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In May 2021, inspectors on the I-40 Mississippi River Bridge near Memphis, Tennessee discovered a major crack in a structural member. The crack developed within a weld that joins two plates, one thicker and one thinner, on the front face of a tie girder on the north side of the bridge. The girder runs beneath the bridge deck, below the traffic streaming westbound from Memphis to Arkansas.
Authorities in Arkansas and Tennessee, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, indefinitely stopped all traffic related to the Hernando de Soto Bridge. The crack may have been there in the 1970s.
Flashback: Back on Aug. 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River expanse in Minnesota collapsed, killing 13 people.
Biden vowed to pay for rebuilding Baltimore's collapsed bridge. Here's how that could work.
politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/26/congress/funding-bridge-rebuild-federal-baltimore-transportation-00149081
Anthony Adragna, Peder SchaeferMarch 26, 2024
7 hours ago
Congress has moved swiftly in the past following a bridge collapse, if it wants to.
With details from Tuesday’s bridge collapse in Baltimore still emerging, President Joe Biden said the federal government should do all it can to help rebuild the span and reopen the city's port.
And there is relatively recent history of how such an approach could work on Capitol Hill, even if the situations are different in important ways.
Flashback: Back on Aug. 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River expanse in Minnesota collapsed, killing 13 people.
Congress wasted no time in responding: An emergency supplemental bill providing $250 million toward rebuilding the bridge emerged the following day and became law just five days after the collapse, following unanimous passage through both chambers.
Today's differences: Congress is on recess for the next two weeks, making quick action very difficult. The Baltimore bridge is also much longer, and there’s no cost estimate yet for the rebuild.
Congress notably delayed relief funding for several months in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation in the Northeast due to GOP opposition.
Biden, though, indicated federal authorities should move swiftly to help the reconstruction of the span by paying “the entire cost of reconstructing” so it could reopen “as soon as humanly possible.”
Biden promises to reopen Baltimore port 'as soon as humanly possible'
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) indicated that federal transportation agencies would not wait for congressional action before providing funds to the state to commence rebuilding — even as they'd push for Congress to step up.
"At this point we would push for a separate package," Van Hollen said in Baltimore. "One way or another we are going to get that help.”
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) echoed that sentiment in another interview nearby the scene of collapse.
"We want to make sure there is no impediment to the use of [federal] resources and that they have enough to cover this," he said. "We will probably have a legislative agenda to help — but it's certainly not necessary for them to get started. We just don't know the dimensions of the losses yet."
Lawmakers, too, will have to assess whether existing money in the fiscal 2024 spending legislation might provide sufficient funds to cover the rebuilding costs already. If not, the White House would likely make a request to Congress and outline what pots of money need to be backfilled in light of the Baltimore collapse.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who leads the Appropriations panel responsible for transportation funding and is a front-runner to lead the committee, told POLITICO in a statement that it is “a priority of mine to ensure proper federal resources are deployed quickly, as well as provide answers” following the collapse and called for ongoing “fellowship” from around the nation to aid Maryland following the disaster.
Caitlin Emma contributed to this report.
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