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</p> [House Democrats look for a sign from the Senate on budget bill]</p> “This isn’t about trust. It’s just about verifying,” the Washington Democrat told reporters.
</p> But the House quickly passed a separate bill to fund Iron Dome by the lopsided margin of 420-9. And Senate leaders were hoping to expedite passage of that bill as soon as this week.
The bill still faces a precarious path as moderate Democrats publicly cast doubt on the topline spending number.
</p> Ways and Means unanimously approved the new Neal-Brady bill in May.
</p> Pelosi said the House can no longer wait until the Senate passes the reconciliation package to pass the infrastructure bill.
</p> The cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the underlying bill was 48-50, falling short of the 60 votes needed to bring the measure up for debate.
</p> Safety provisions Another provision in the Pentagon policy bill would direct the secretaries of the Army and the Navy to carry out a pilot program that evaluates the feasibility of using data recording
</p> The House bill would authorize $739.5 billion for the Defense Department, $24.7 billion more than the $714.8 billion the Biden administration requested.
</p> No Republicans voted for it. Rep. Henry Cuellar, of Texas, was the only Democrat to vote against the bill.</p> The legislation by Rep.
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</p> The House bill is tied up in the Senate, where 60 votes are required to advance legislation unless all senators grant unanimous consent.
The days are in the single digits for Congress to pass a government funding bill that keeps the lights on after next Thursday.
But the bill still faces united Republican opposition in the evenly split chamber.
The text of the Senate bill became available Wednesday.</p> “It’s not come up in the context of our bill, so I’ve had no input or discussions about it.
</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.