A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Thursday unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure counter-proposal to President Joe Biden’s sweeping $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, which the GOP has panned for going far beyond the traditional concept of “infrastructure.” Republicans launched their proposal at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, with Capito opening the presser by noting longstanding bipartisan calls to fix the nation’s aging infrastructure, adding that the GOP defines the concept more narrowly, as “core infrastructure, physical infrastructure.” Capito, a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), shared an overview of the GOP proposal in a tweet, in which she said that Biden’s plan “goes beyond what constitutes infrastructure. Today, we set a clear path forward on core principles that DEFINE infrastructure & address our country’s needs.” The GOP framework (pdf) includes $299 billion on roads and …