Pelosi shifts infrastructure bill deadline to 31 October amid Biden frustration

[Klaralven]

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has set a new deadline for the House to pass a major infrastructure spending bill after a week of negotiations left Joe Biden’s social and environmental policy overhaul plan in a limbo.

In a letter to House Democrats on Saturday, Pelosi said that the House will have until Sunday 31 October to pass the $1tn bipartisan infrastructure bill, which passed the Senate in August.

Progressive Democrats in the House refused to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, despite pressure from their moderate counterparts, as leverage in negotiations over a separate bill that contains massive spending on many of Biden’s campaign promises, including increased access to childcare and action on climate change.

“More time was needed to reach our goal of passing both bills, which we will,” Pelosi said in the letter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/02/pelosi-new-infrastructure-bill-deadline-31-october-biden-frustration

So what happens with the debt limit between 10/18 and 10/31?

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

1. Why even give a deadline

All it does is cause a media flurry and hyperbole headlines and talk on cable news…..and it’s really the Senate that needs to pass the reconciliation bill, not the House passing the infrastructure bill

[Klaralven]

5. I think it is related to the COP26 meeting in Glasgow beginning 10/31

If the bill isn't passed, Biden won't have climate legislation passed to take to the meeting.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. The debt ceiling is a separate issue

It could be folded in to the reconciliation bill and passed by October 18- the October 31 deadline is for the bipartisan bill, not reconciliation.

[Tomconroy]

3. This is the fourth time this week Speaker Pelosi has given a

deadline for passage of the infrastructure bill. A legislative victory for President Biden is being held hostage by a minority of House Democrats. The Reconciliation bill was always going to stand or fall on its own merits. Pass the bill!

[Demsrule86]

4. I agree...and it they don't and we lose the majority then as far as I am concerned they all get

primaryed during the next election.

[honest.abe]

6. If we lose the majority we are totally screwed.

Primarying Democrats isnt going to help with that disaster.

[Tomconroy]

7. The actually contested seats are generally held by moderates. The

Progressives have the luxury of representing safe districts.

[honest.abe]

8. Right, my point is I dont think primarying anyone should be our focus if we lose the majority.

We would likely be in crisis situation nearing the loss of our Democracy. Primarying Progressives or Moderates who piss us off could make the situation even worse.

[Tomconroy]

9. I agree. Democrats need to be a big tent.

[Klaralven]

13. At some point there is going to be major generational change

Democrats aged 75+
Eddie Bernice Johnson December 3, 1935 (age 85)
Grace Napolitano December 4, 1936 (age 84)
Bill Pascrell January 25, 1937 (age 84)
Maxine Waters August 15, 1938 (age 83)
Steny Hoyer June 14, 1939 (age 82)
Nancy Pelosi March 26, 1940 (age 81)
Jim Clyburn July 21, 1940 (age 81)
David Price August 17, 1940 (age 81)
Alan Lowenthal March 8, 1941 (age 80)
Lucille Roybal-Allard June 12, 1941 (age 80)
Danny K. Davis September 6, 1941 (age 80)
Frederica Wilson November 5, 1942 (age 78)
Anna Eshoo December 13, 1942 (age 78)
Rosa DeLauro March 2, 1943 (age 78)
Jan Schakowsky May 26, 1944 (age 77)
Doris Matsui September 25, 1944 (age 77)
Emanuel Cleaver October 26, 1944 (age 76)
John Garamendi January 24, 1945 (age 76)
Bonnie Watson Coleman February 6, 1945 (age 76)
David Scott June 27, 1945 (age 76)
Tom O'Halleran January 24, 1946 (age 75)
Dutch Ruppersberger January 31, 1946 (age 75)
Carolyn Maloney February 19, 1946 (age 75)
Alma Adams May 27, 1946 (age 75)
Marcy Kaptur June 17, 1946 (age 75)
Barbara Lee July 16, 1946 (age 75)


Republicans aged 75+
Don Young June 9, 1933 (age 88)
Hal Rogers December 31, 1937 (age 83)
John Carter November 6, 1941 (age 79)
Kay Granger January 18, 1943 (age 78)
Virginia Foxx June 29, 1943 (age 78)
Jim Baird June 4, 1945 (age 76)

[empedocles]

10. The Speaker has been our best decision-maker, especially for holding the House.

Going against Pelosi's [imo] better judgement is not good for the longer term Dem health.

Two many minority interest Dem groups are using the narrow Dem vote margins to leverage their particular interests.

[gulliver]

11. The headline with "amid Biden frustration" deserves a red card for incompetence

The body of the article quotes Biden saying, “Everybody’s frustrated. It’s a part of being in government, being frustrated.”

Notice that is not just "Biden frustration." The headline writer apparently decided to single Biden out as frustrated, losing the entire meaning and import of what he said and creating a false meaning and import in its place.

[Etherealoc1]

12. No more deadlines

Pelosi should just proceed with the
same intensity to get the bills passed.

This deadline will only give Manchin
the green light to keep delaying.