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budget tightrope in House] All nine members except for Bourdeaux had signed a letter sent to Pelosi on Tuesday with a less threatening request for a standalone vote on the infrastructure bill, “without
the telecommunications industry largely satisfied with how the legislation would allocate $65 billion aimed at closing the “digital divide” between Americans with high-speed internet access and those without
“I think they’re gonna say, ‘OK, put yours in and we’ll put ours in.’ And that’s probably what will happen as long as they are within the limits,” Leahy said.
Ed Case has expressed similar concerns and said in a recent interview he wouldn’t support the budget without a vote scheduled on the infrastructure bill.
Schumer, D-N.Y., and Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Toomey was ready to accept that, but Democrats were not, and Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., objected to that arrangement.
Because they’ll be taking up the measure without GOP support, Democratic leaders need to keep their entire caucuses on board. They can lose only three votes in the House, and zero in the Senate.
“But at the end of the day, I believe this package will do a great service for the United States and a great service for my home state of Mississippi.”
Thank you for protecting our Capitol,” Biden said at the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris said by securing the Capitol, the officers “secured our democracy.”
“I represent many rural communities, each with its own challenges and needs,” Clyburn testified to the House Rules Committee last October.
“It can go rather slowly, of course, without that cooperation. In either case, the Senate is going to stay here until we finish our work.”
But for the purposes that we’re talking about here, I do not support the speaker’s insistence that this bill would not pass without the budget resolution, so I hope she changes her mind because I can’t
“Given how bipartisan the bill is and how much work has already been put in to get the details right, I believe the Senate can quickly process relevant amendments and pass this bill in a matter of
“I was just informed by the House physician I have tested positive for COVID-19 even after being vaccinated,” the South Carolina Republican said in a statement.
National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling said Monday that administration lawyers have been unable to find a new justification that would pass muster, but he said President Joe Biden has tasked
If you don’t think our Democrat friends are going to push for that monstrosity, with or without this bill, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you.
“I started this effort in the last century and I’ll continue into the next if that’s what it takes to adapt this Senate rule to the times,” Enzi said in a statement not long before his retirement
The estimated 8.2 million voucher-eligible households that go without aid far outnumber the 2.3 million that get them.
But they do and both parties are to blame,” Braun said.
“We liked to joke that we were such good friends because I made him feel tall and he made me feel like a snappy dresser,” Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., said in a statement.