{"id":10088,"date":"2021-11-15T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10088"},"modified":"2021-11-15T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:38:05","slug":"breaking-president-biden-signs-sen-ossoff-provision-to-remove-lead-water-pipes-from-public-schools-into-law","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/breaking-president-biden-signs-sen-ossoff-provision-to-remove-lead-water-pipes-from-public-schools-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: President Biden Signs Sen. Ossoff Provision to Remove Lead Water Pipes from Public Schools into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013\u2013&nbsp;President Joe Biden signed U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s provision to repair and remove lead water pipes from public schools into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery child deserves clean, healthy drinking water at school, and every family deserves clean water in their home,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Sen. Ossoff.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThis is a huge win for Georgia and a testament to what we can accomplish when we work together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, the provision will ensure all children have safe, clean drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill includes $55 billion for clean water \u2014 the largest ever investment in clean water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-launches-push-for-clean-water-in-schools\/\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;his push to replace lead pipes in schools in April, urging Congress to act after a recent study found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-04-20_Letter-to-Chair-Carper-re-Remediation-of-lead-in-pipes-at-public-schools.pdf\">Georgia<\/a>, along with 22 other states, received an \u201cF\u201d grade for water quality in public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013\u2013&nbsp;President Joe Biden signed U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s provision to repair and remove lead water pipes from public schools into law. \u201cEvery child deserves clean, healthy drinking water at school, and every family deserves clean water in their home,\u201d&nbsp;said Sen. Ossoff.&nbsp;\u201cThis is a huge win for Georgia and a testament to what we can [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10088","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10088\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}