Votes On Build Back Better, Infrastructure Bill Delayed As Democrats Scramble To Reach Agreement On Lowering Drug CostsAndrew Trunsky
Political Reporter
November 01, 2021 10:48 AM ET
The House Rules Committee is no longer meeting Monday to markup Democrats’ spending package, meaning that the full House vote on it and the bipartisan infrastructure bill will be delayed past Tuesday, when Democratic leadership originally sought to pass the linked legislation.
An aide said Sunday that the committee would need “additional time to craft language and get final agreement with all parties involved,” telling Punchbowl News that “extensive progress” had been made, and that the House would vote “as early as possible this week.”
Democrats have been trying to compromise on a provision allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices in a bid to lower them. Though the policy has the support of nearly every Democrat and the overwhelming majority of the American people, some in the party, notably Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, have opposed efforts to allow price negotiations.
“We have made extensive progress on Rx drugs and other key initiatives which were not included in the text posted to Rules on Thursday,” the aide said.
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