Infrastructure Read
The Senate approved a $1 trillion package to improve and modernize the nation’s aging infrastructure through a bipartisan 69 to 30 vote. The legislation now must pass the House.
The Senate passed a sweeping $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, following weeks of negotiations and debate over the largest federal investment in the nation’s public works system in more than a decade.
A total of 19 Republicans joined 50 Democrats and independents to vote in favor of the legislation.
A majority of members in the Progressive Caucus are willing to reject the bipartisan infrastructure deal until a second, more expansive spending package clears the Senate.
The 2,702-page bipartisan deal is the product of months of negotiating and years of pent-up ambitions to repair the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Here are the highlights.
The pending infrastructure bill only underscores the need to free the Senate from the shackle of the supermajority.
The bipartisan bill, which is expected to pass the Senate on Tuesday morning and then head to the House, would touch nearly every facet of the American economy.
A Senate budget blueprint, which Democrats hope to pass this week, would ease passage of legislation that would mark the biggest expansion of the social safety net in nearly 60 years.
Absent unanimous agreement to expedite the process, the bill may not pass until around 3 a.m. Tuesday because Senate rules require 30 hours of debate.
The bipartisan bill has resurrected the lost art of freewheeling legislative debate in the usually gridlocked chamber. It takes forever.
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