Senate in talks to quickly pass infrastructure bill
By Jordain Carney - 08/05/21 01:55 PM EDT
Senators are aiming to wrap up a bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as Thursday, though they cautioned it could slip into the weekend.
The attempt to move at warp speed isn’t final, and would take the agreement of all 100 senators. And with the bill still needing a Congressional Budget Office score, some senators said passing it on Saturday, the day they were already expected to have a key test vote, was more likely.
But the effort to speed up both the completion of the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan bill and the budget that tees up Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package comes amid a growing urgency to get out of town for a weeks-long summer break and the view that the outcome of the days-long infrastructure debate is largely set in stone.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), asked about a possible vote on Thursday to pass the bipartisan deal, described it as in flux but said that senators didn’t see a point in dragging out their two-part debate.
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