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Infrastructure vote looks shaky as progressives balk, again
Progressive opposition spells trouble for the five-year infrastructure plan if Democratic leaders schedule a vote for later Thursday, as they said they hoped to.
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Progressive opposition spells trouble for the five-year infrastructure plan if Democratic leaders schedule a vote for later Thursday, as they said they hoped to.
Other lawmakers seemed taken aback by the decision to schedule the Rules meeting because of so many unanswered questions.
In fact, Austin’s schedule may soon be supplanted by a law requiring faster changes than he plans.
[Budget package taking shape as Democrats eye aggressive schedule] And, according to budget experts, reconciliation procedures appear to require lawmakers to vote for a specific debt limit amount
In floor remarks on next week’s schedule, Hoyer said he could bring the reconciliation package up, along with a separate Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill, “if they’re ready.”
Army officials have cited a number of reasons for the extended schedule, including that the force is large, geographically dispersed and harder to track.
Hoyer sent a floor schedule update to members shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday saying the chamber would not vote that night.
Hoyer said if the debt limit and continuing resolution aren’t dealt with this week, his chamber may need to revise the schedule that currently calls for no floor votes next week.
Hoyer, told reporters he planned to announce the reconciliation bill as a “possibility” for next week’s floor schedule.”
“Yes, it’s a tight schedule, but I think most probably more it has to do with politics and the fact that you’re going to have the Senate vote again on another budget resolution, and that budget resolution
leadership’s effort to fulfill separate commitments made to the moderate and progressive wings of the party on the two parts of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda may backfire, resulting in an embarrassing schedule
The bill would extend fentanyl’s status as a so-called “Schedule 1” drug until Jan. 28, 2022. Under current law, the drug would lose its status as a drug with a high risk for abuse on Oct. 22.
Biden’s plan would keep most of the latest expansion, including its value and advance payment schedule, through 2025.
You might too if you had this kind of schedule, flying back and forth between her San Diego-area district and her job in Washington, all while earning a reputation as the new member of Congress everyone
Debate on the rule, which in addition to deeming the budget adopted would set parameters for floor debate on Senate-passed infrastructure legislation and a voting rights bill, was still on Tuesday’s floor schedule
Jared Golden of Maine, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, Kurt Schrader of Oregon and Texans Filemon Vela, Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez — have repeatedly warned that if leadership doesn’t schedule
There are multiple reasons for why it has taken so long to get the first permanent ambassador confirmed and sent out to their post: administration sluggishness, the Senate’s reduced work schedule and the
The Senate returns Sept. 13, and outside of an extraordinary circumstance where there is consent from both sides or an unprecedented situation where Congress gets adjourned by President Joe Biden, the schedule
But at least eight to 10 moderate House Democrats are privately expressing a willingness to vote against the budget if Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not schedule a vote on the Senate-passed, bipartisan
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed not to put the bipartisan infrastructure package on the floor until she can also schedule the reconciliation package, with Biden’s other priorities, before the House