Key Republican senators say they're ready to take up an infrastructure deal
Source: New York Times
Key Republican senators say theyre ready to take up an infrastructure deal, paving the way for a vote. (Complete headline)
Key Republican senators said on Wednesday that they had resolved the biggest sticking points to a final agreement with the White House and Democrats on a far-reaching infrastructure bill, and planned to vote to allow the package to advance, paving the way for action on crucial piece of President Bidens agenda.
We now have an agreement on the major issues and were prepared to move forward, said Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio and a lead negotiator for his party in bipartisan talks on the infrastructure measure.
The emerging deal was expected to fill in the details of an outline the group triumphantly announced at the White House in late June, but has spent weeks haggling over as they toiled to translate it into legislative text while keeping their fragile coalition together.
While details were not immediately available, the bill under discussion would pump the largest infusion of federal money in more than a decade into the nations aging public works system.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/politics/infrastructure-deal-biden.html
Yeah, like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. I call bullshit, they are just going to eff with all of us as usual.
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)I think back to the negotiations on the ACA. Negotiate to take out things that you don't want, then refuse to vote for what you negotiated.
babylonsister
(171,042 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,836 posts)oasis
(49,365 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,111 posts)Because .... it's coming.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Deminpenn
(15,270 posts)it wasn't even a close vote.
We now know the exact number of dead-enders in the Senate, 32.