Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has previewed a Wednesday vote on the bipartisan infrastructure legislation and set the same day as a deadline for his party to settle on what will be in its $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan. We’ll be following what lawmakers say as they make the rounds today.
Follow the developments in our liveblog:
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has previewed a Wednesday vote on the bipartisan infrastructure legislation and set the same day as a deadline for his party to settle on what will be in its $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan. We’ll be following what lawmakers say as they make the rounds today.
Follow the developments in our liveblog:
Somehow, I get the feeling the GQP will not be reconciled with.
Call it a hunch.
Yeah, sure. “Too soon! Too fast!” We all knew that none of the Republicans would vote for the infrastructure mini-bill they had negotiated. And excuses are easy-peasy to find or fabricate. It’s always the Democrat Party’s fault! Not bipartisan! The journos always eat it up. The refs stay worked.
The Dems work in good faith while the GQP plays games…again. Your hunch is right on. And anyone paying attention knows it. They are not honest brokers. Lucy and the football is their game and has been on anything important that would help the citizens of this country.
Shorter Cassidy: “After pulling away the football, we will knock the golf ball off the tee, and then we will pitch to you while you use our balsa wood bat…”
I am quite confused about the assertion that the bill “isn’t done yet”. What precisely does that mean? When you vote you vote on the text in a particular document, not in approval of a general idea with details to be worked out later. Is the voting referred to an earlier procedural step? Is the unfinished part that republicans don’t like what the bill says and would like to re-write it?
Critiques of Chuck Schumer generally do not center around his impulsiveness or disregard for senate rules. So if he’s bringing something to a vote, I have to believe that the bill is a formally complete and properly formatted piece of legislation