This is a short lived victory for President Biden and Democrats…
But it just Act # 1 in a political opera that will play out in the next few months….
The Senate bill goes back to House were House Speaker Pelosi must tamp down her parties progressives efforts to add things that will NOT get approved in the US Senate….
Furthermore?
Pelosi wants to attach this bill’s passage to Biden budget plan that just needs Democratic approval in the Senate , but faces pushback from some Democrats who , again?
Do NOT and will NOT approve some the progressives want’s….
The Senate vote was 69-30 well above 60 vote margin needed for passage….
BTW?
The approval of this is a defeat for Donald Trump who wanted Republicans to NOT go along with this…..
The Senate on Tuesday passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, a significant win for President Biden and the first step on his top legislative priority.
Senators voted 69-30 on the bill, which was spearheaded by a bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Nineteen GOP senators voted with all Democrats to pass the legislation.
The bill is now heading to the House, where it faces an uncertain future and skepticism from progressives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has vowed she won’t take it up until the Senate passes the second part of its infrastructure two step, a sweeping $3.5 trillion spending package that includes Democrats’ top priorities….
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“Congress has talked about truly modernizing our nation’s infrastructure for as long as we can remember. The United States Senate delivered so that we can finally give the American people the safe, reliable, and modern infrastructure they deserve,” Portman, Sinema and the eight other senators who were the core negotiators said in a joint statement after the vote.
And underscoring the bill’s importance to the administration, Vice President Harris presided over the vote even though she wasn’t needed to break a tie.
The bipartisan deal includes roughly $550 billion in new funding, making it substantially smaller than the $2.6 trillion proposed by Biden earlier this year.
It includes money for new investments for infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, broadband, water and rail. According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis, the bill would add $256 billion to the deficit, though negotiators argue that “hard” infrastructure projects pay for themselves over time and that CBO didn’t give them full credit for their work…
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The bill passed in the Senate on Tuesday put Republican splits on full display with former President Trump repeatedly lashing out at Republicans, including GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for helping advance the bipartisan deal…
The Senate’s passage of the bill tees up Senate Democrats to turn to their $3.5 trillion plan, which they will try to pass through the Senate without GOP support.
Passing the plan requires two steps: First, they need to clear a budget resolution that includes broad instructions and top-line figures on the subsequent bill.
The Senate is poised to vote on Tuesday to take up the budget resolution, which Democrats will be able to do on their own as long as all 50 of their members stay unified. Before they can approve the budget, they’ll need to endure a marathon session known as vote-a-rama, where any senator can force a vote on anything they want.
After they clear the budget resolution, they will then spend at least a month drafting the spending package itself, which will include top priorities including expanding Medicare, immigration reform, combating climate change and universal pre-K….
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The House is expected to wait until after the Senate passes the spending package this fall to take up the bipartisan bill, though moderates are ramping up efforts to pressure Pelosi into moving faster….
Thirty Republicans voted Nay while Mike Rounds (R-SD) did not vote.
The 19 Republicans voting Yea [alphabetical by state abbrev.]:
Murkowski – ( R-AK)
Sullivan – ( R-AK)
Grassley – ( R-IA)
Crapo – ( R-ID)
Risch – ( R-ID)
McConnell – ( R-KY)
Cassidy – ( R-LA)
Collins – ( R-ME)
Blunt – ( R-MO)
Wicker – ( R-MS)
Burr – ( R-NC)
Tillis – ( R-NC)
Cramer – ( R-ND)
Hoeven – ( R-ND)
Fischer – ( R-NE)
Portman – ( R-OH)
Graham – ( R-SC)
Romney – ( R-UT)
Capito – ( R-WV)
Thanks DSD…..
Trump just can’t McConnell to follow his directions no matter what he does, eh?
Trump Blasts McConnell Over Infrastructure Bill
Former President Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as “overrated” due to his support of the bipartisan infrastructure package, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “Nobody will ever understand why Mitch McConnell allowed this non-infrastructure bill to be passed. He has given up all of his leverage for the big whopper of a bill that will follow.”
He added: “I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics—now I don’t have to be quiet anymore.”
Trump was previously quiet?
Nope……,
Maybe this could be a bigger win for Democrats than I thought…If Trump goes off the rails and starts really going after McConnell it just continues to fuel the Civil War in that party…a divided party is really one of the only hopes Democrats have of controlling the full congress after 2022…maybe with strong messaging for all the stimulus, but i doubt that is enough…culture wars are a losing battle ground for democrats in a lot of congressional districts…
Actually, in my view, the biggest problem for the Democrat is inflation.
We saw this play out with Jimmy Carter .
While many attribute Carters defeat in 1980 to the hostage crisis with Iraq ,my remembrance of that time was that the real anger was at the double digit inflation rate.
We are being told that this inflation is only a temporary blip.I hope so because if it is still around this time next year?No one will care about that stimulus(which in my view was too big and for which Biden received only nominal credit despite poll claiming how popular it was) or even this infrastructure bill whose visible benefits won’t be obvious for years.
The Democrats will lose both houses of Congress.
Prices for somethings ate crazy …….
It’s like some businesses are trying to get back a years lost revenue…..
Not all of the current inflation comes from monetary policy, perhaps not even most. And Fed governors of all leanings promise to increase interest rates and decrease the money supply should the current inflation continue
I still tend to believe the Received Opinion that much of current inflation is still more due to bottlenecks and shortages than to heavy spending, and in the classical market model that says prices will ease as production increases to meet demand. (For example, as more semiconductors are produced — and as assembly lines switch back from PPE —auto manufacturers will be able to produce more vehicles, lowering prices for both old and new cars.)
Increased demand fuelled by increased disposable personal income seems to be less of a cause.
Ain’t too many people gonna be happy with HIGHR Interest rates….
Ain’t too many people gonna be happy with inflation either.
Pick your poison!
Stimulus including the two infrastructure bills and possible student loan are included in what I am calling stimulus…plus the bill they first passed at the beginning of the year.
Student loans is uncharted territory Bdog
Biden does NOT want to forgive a nickel in student lian debt neither does GOPer’s
Meanwhile at least THREE companies that handle rhe loans for the Education Dept are dropping out the business….
$1.4 TRILLION
And most of it will NEVER be paid….
The fucking program IS a mess and like immigration?
NO ONE wants to do shit!
The omnibus budget resolution (or reconciliation bill) passed the Senate 50-49 just before 4 a.m. today.
Just after 4 a.m., S. 1, the voting rights protection, passed by an identical vote of 50-49.
In each case, all 48 Democrats and both Independents voted Yea.
Mike Rounds (R-SD) did not vote, but all the other 49 Republicans voted against.
The casting vote of the Presiding Officer (Vice President Kamala Harris) was not needed for either bill.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00357
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00358
My mistake the Senate just voted 50-49 to open debate on and allow proposals for amendment on the big reconciliation bill, rather than pass the bill itself.
(CNN)The Senate on Tuesday voted to open debate on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution and has now begun a series of votes on amendments that could go late into the night before final passage.
If both chambers of Congress adopt the budget resolution, then Democrats could draft a sweeping legislative package to advance many of their party’s priorities — on issues from health care to immigration to climate change — that could be approved on a straight party-line vote and would not be subject to the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is now halfway toward his two-track goal of advancing both a bipartisan infrastructure bill, which cleared the upper chamber by a wide bipartisan majority on Tuesday morning, and adopting a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions, before the Senate bolts for its weeks-long summer recess.
The vote to proceed to the budget resolution passed along party lines 50-49 on Tuesday and soon after the Senate began what’s known as a “vote-a-rama,” where senators can theoretically offer as many amendments as they want…
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/politics/democrats-budget-resolution-debate/index.html