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Infrastructure vote suspense prompts worries about highway bill
</p> Moderates are threatening to withhold support on the larger bill if they don’t get their Sept. 27 vote.
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</p> Moderates are threatening to withhold support on the larger bill if they don’t get their Sept. 27 vote.
</p> That ambitious timeframe, if it holds, would line up the multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill with a vote on a smaller bipartisan infrastructure measure that may otherwise be defeated.
</p> Progressives have threatened to vote down the infrastructure bill because they don’t want to send it to Biden until both chambers also pass the second piece — a sweeping social spending and tax bill
</p> Debate on the bill began Tuesday and stretched into Thursday night as lawmakers debated and voted on 476 amendments on everything from the proper level of U.S. defense spending to how best to handle
</p> The bill to provide the funding to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system passed 420-9 under suspension of the rules, a process that allowed a quick floor vote given strong bipartisan support.
</p> Ways and Means bill Neal told reporters that every revenue measure his committee approved last week is still in play.
</p> <p id="h-a-spokesman-for-grassley-said-the-senator-declined-to-comment">A spokesman for Grassley said the senator declined to comment.
</p> [House passes stopgap funding, debt ceiling suspension bill]</p> But if there’s no other option available, reopening the fiscal 2022 budget resolution to add debt limit language is possible.
The House began voting on amendments to the annual defense policy bill Wednesday, taking up six measures lawmakers debated the previous evening.
</p> The funding bill contains the largest-ever appropriation for members’ offices, after hitting a peak in the 2010 fiscal year at $660 million.
the infrastructure bill.
</p> House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., an advocate of the aid, said he’d put the funding in a separate bill and bring it to the floor later this week.
</p> The House will consider, and probably reject, proposals to cut the amount of spending authorized in the bill.
</p> House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., released a revised stopgap bill with the Iron Dome funding dropped, plus a few other technical changes.
actually vote for that bill.”
</p> Former President Bill Clinton said in 2011 that during his 1995-96 budget standoff with Republicans, his staff researched the constitutional implications and that he would use the 14th Amendment
</p> Under what’s known as the “Byrd rule,” measures included in a reconciliation bill — which can pass with a simple majority — must directly affect the federal budget.
</p> Here’s the week in photos, as captured by CQ Roll Call’s photojournalists: </p> From left, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader
</p> These are among the manifold matters that House members want to debate next week when they consider the latest defense authorization bill.
</p> Republicans passed a sweeping tax overhaul a month later but the provision to provide permanent relief was not included, even though much of the bill was crafted by then-Speaker Paul D.