Democrats plan Thursday vote on massive Biden bill
By Mike Lillis - 11/18/21 03:01 PM EST
House Democrats are planning to vote Thursday evening on the massive social benefits and climate package at the core of President Biden's domestic agenda, lending the embattled party a significant victory heading into the long Thanksgiving recess.
The office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who formally sets the floor schedule, announced the plan Thursday afternoon, just hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had signaled an intent to race the bill to the floor by day's end.
Standing in the way of the vote has been a cost analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Congress's official scorekeeper, where officials have been racing around the clock to complete more than a dozen provisional estimates gauging the budgetary impacts of provisions under the various committees.
As of Thursday afternoon, 11 of the 13 cost reports had been released publicly, and "the complete estimate" will be unveiled later in the day, the CBO announced Thursday around noon.
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