Slowly it progresses..will it pass?
The bipartisan infrastructure deal embraced by President Joe Biden and shaped by a gang of 10 senators is inching closer to clearing the chamber, with one more filibuster to clear on Sunday before the bill can pass later this week and land in the the House.
Absent a deal to speed up the legislation and consider more amendments, the Senate is slated to vote shortly before 8 p.m. on Sunday to close down debate on a bill that sends $550 billion in new money into the nation’s physical infrastructure. After that, Senate passage of the bill is slated for sometime Tuesday, unless agreement is reached among all 100 senators to speed it up. A 50-hour budget debate and an unlimited vote-a-rama on nonbinding but politically symbolic topics will follow immediately after.
Both parties are still trying to negotiate amendments changing the infrastructure bill’s cryptocurrency regulations and allowing coronavirus aid money to be spent on infrastructure, but there was no deal to be had as of Sunday afternoon. Conservative detractors of the infrastructure agreement have no leeway to stop the bill from passing, only to delay it — 18 Republicans voted to advance the legislation on Saturday, signaling that it has filibuster-proof support.
Seems like Nancy is planning on eating the R's lunch:
Once the bill is done, its future is uncertain in the House. Democratic moderates are already pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take the legislation up immediately, though Pelosi and many progressives want to wait until a Democratic-only social spending bill also passes the Senate. That bill cannot be filibustered by Senate Republicans in the evenly split chamber.
Pelosi and Schumer have devised a two-track process to enact as much of Biden's domestic agenda as possible, pledging that the bipartisan infrastructure bill will only advance if it is married to the party-line legislation that will spend as much as $3.5 trillion on climate change action, paid leave policies and health care expansion.
The bipartisan infrastructure deal embraced by President Joe Biden and shaped by a gang of 10 senators is inching closer to clearing the chamber, with one more filibuster to clear on Sunday before the bill can pass later this week and land in the the House.
Absent a deal to speed up the legislation and consider more amendments, the Senate is slated to vote shortly before 8 p.m. on Sunday to close down debate on a bill that sends $550 billion in new money into the nation’s physical infrastructure. After that, Senate passage of the bill is slated for sometime Tuesday, unless agreement is reached among all 100 senators to speed it up. A 50-hour budget debate and an unlimited vote-a-rama on nonbinding but politically symbolic topics will follow immediately after.
Both parties are still trying to negotiate amendments changing the infrastructure bill’s cryptocurrency regulations and allowing coronavirus aid money to be spent on infrastructure, but there was no deal to be had as of Sunday afternoon. Conservative detractors of the infrastructure agreement have no leeway to stop the bill from passing, only to delay it — 18 Republicans voted to advance the legislation on Saturday, signaling that it has filibuster-proof support.
Seems like Nancy is planning on eating the R's lunch:
Once the bill is done, its future is uncertain in the House. Democratic moderates are already pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take the legislation up immediately, though Pelosi and many progressives want to wait until a Democratic-only social spending bill also passes the Senate. That bill cannot be filibustered by Senate Republicans in the evenly split chamber.
Pelosi and Schumer have devised a two-track process to enact as much of Biden's domestic agenda as possible, pledging that the bipartisan infrastructure bill will only advance if it is married to the party-line legislation that will spend as much as $3.5 trillion on climate change action, paid leave policies and health care expansion.
