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Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« on: August 06, 2021, 02:34:26 pm »
Sean Moran 6 Aug 2021

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) effort to have the Senate vote on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure fell apart Thursday night after many lawmakers objected.

Schumer wanted to expedite the Senate floor proceedings that could have led to a quick passage of the bill on Saturday; however, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said that he could not consent to the bill’s advancement because of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) dismal score of the mammoth, 2,702-page legislation.

“We very much want to finish this important bill, so we will reconvene Saturday at noon to vote [to overcome a filibuster], and then we will follow regular order to finish the bill,” Schumer said Thursday.

A spokesman for Hagerty said the senator “cannot in good conscience agree to expedite a process immediately after the CBO confirmed that the bill would add over a quarter of a trillion dollars to the deficit.”

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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2021, 02:49:02 pm »
It's not only adding to the deficit that's a problem, but the bill is over 2,000 pages long.  Which is absurd and indicates that it's not a clean straight forward infrastructure bill and is ladled with all kinds of other 'attachments'.  McConnell mentioned amendments.  So, the bill becomes even larger with bits and pieces of legislation added to it!
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2021, 03:41:29 pm »
I hope and pray that this bill remains stalled forever!
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2021, 03:54:08 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on August 06, 2021, 03:41:29 pm
I hope and pray that this bill remains stalled forever!

Amen!~
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2021, 04:44:53 pm »
One does not scurry through a trillion dollar bill without reading it and debating it.

If that, and the lack of a budget passed since God-knows-when, does not epitomize what is wrong in DC, nothing does.
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2021, 04:50:11 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on August 06, 2021, 04:44:53 pm
One does not scurry through a trillion dollar bill without reading it and debating it.

If that, and the lack of a budget passed since God-knows-when, does not epitomize what is wrong in DC, nothing does.

This entire bill is about funneling federal $$$ into blue metropolises and nothing more. It needs to die ASAP.
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2021, 09:03:46 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on August 06, 2021, 03:41:29 pm
I hope and pray that this bill remains stalled forever!

It won't.

The Rats manipulated !8 "middle of the road" Pubs into supporting this bill. It's just a show right now.
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Re: Infrastructure Bill Comes to Grinding Halt After Amendment Fight
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2021, 09:39:59 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on August 06, 2021, 04:50:11 pm
This entire bill is about funneling federal $$$ into blue metropolises and nothing more. It needs to die ASAP.

Too many RINO's on board for it to die.
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