BREAKING: Senate passes INVEST IN AMERICA ACT (infrastructure bill)

[brooklynite]

Current vote is 58-19

[North Shore Chicago]

1. Good news, Thank you!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Fantastic news!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Excellent!

Time to get to work!

[honest.abe]

4. Great news!

Someone mentioned the House is recessed and wont be able to act on this bill until the Fall. Is that your understanding as well?

[ananda]

27. Pelosi will bring Congress back for this vote, she said.

...

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Be careful out there!!!

There will be a stampede of RepubliQans running to microphones to claim credit for doing what is right for America......

[Johnny2X2X]

6. It needs 60

But it's going to get well over that.

[brooklynite]

7. Nope; simple majority

Once cloture i(requiring 60) s invoked.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Thanks

And regardless, it's at 68 now with several votes left to be counted. it will get to 70.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. Finally we get an infrastructure bill. And it's been created using bipartisanship.

That's what you get when you have a president who is more concerned with serving all the people -- Democrats, Republicans and Independents -- than feeding his oversized ego. It also shows the benefit of having people on both sides of the aisle who know how legislating works managing the process of negotiating the bill.

After four years of hell, the adults are back in the house.

Too bad the GQP doesn't care about the right to vote as they do bringing home the bacon to their constituents.

[SoonerPride]

9. How is this possible? I read on DU that Biden was clueless and the law wouldn't pass.

And that he was getting played by Republicans.

Surely those DU people couldn't have been wrong?

[NurseJackie]

15. Life's full of little surprises!

Surely those DU people couldn't have been wrong?

Life's full of little surprises!

[IronLionZion]

23. I also read on DU that Biden knows how to get enough votes

and is very persuasive. So somebody was lying or needs antidepressants.

Biden is the right president at the right time. And if we have fewer conservatives after COVID, we might get more liberal laws passed in the future.

[BradAllison]

24. Hardly anyone said that, especially here.

This was all about the US Senate getting a watered down enough bill where the right people got their cut so they could go home and tell people they aren't a do-nothing government employee in service to a disgraced traitor. And many of them aren't even up in '22 or running again.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

10. I'm wondering how many will give Sinema any credit for this...

[FoxNewsSucks]

32. For what does she deserve credit?

Doing what a Democrat is expected to do on infrastructure?

Bottom line is, if she doesn't get behind some kind of filibuster deal on voting rights, future republicons in control of the House, Senate and WH will repeal this just as fast as they will then repeal Obamacare. And they'll do it quickly.

Voting rights and reform is an absolute necessity.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

33. We're not talking about voting rights - we're talking about infrastructure

The bill she did the heavy lifting on. The bill she was the point person on. The bill she got the Republicans to sign onto.

But keep on finding an excuse to bash her.

[FoxNewsSucks]

36. I'm clearly not bashing her.

Just pointing out the facts. Future republicons can and will undo anything we do now.

This is great, and I'd like to keep it. Without voting rights guaranteed, we won't.

[Budi]

11. 68- 30 and counting

Thank you Sen Schumer!
THIS is the years-tested skillset of the Democratic Party at work, before our eyes.

THIS is why Joe Biden is President

Honestly, to prepare, negotiate & get it to a Pass vote in the current political climate is a phenomenal task.
Remember when the odds of passing this were ZERO?

Congrats Biden, Schumer, Pelosi & all of the Establishment wisdom of our Democrats.

Now on to the 3.5 trillion budget plan.

Bring it on home Democrats!!!
💙

[pandr32]

18. But, but, but, didn't TFG threaten to primary Republicans?

I seem to remember he drew a line in the sand declaring any Republicans who broke rank and supported this would be primaried.
I guess that fizzled.

[Wild blueberry]

12. Hot damn!

Three cheers!!!

[PortTack]

13. Oh...someone's got a full diaper and over this!!

[zuul]

14. Whew! I was really expecting some last-minute repube bullshit.

President Biden is amazing, as are all the Democratic Senators who had a hand in pulling this off!



TFG must be pissing mad today.

[mountain grammy]

16. They need to put an unlimited debt ceiling

in the budget reconciliation bill that comes after this.

Good job, Democrats! Go fuck yourselves, republicans.

[Tadpole Raisin]

17. Oh man this is wonderful news!

Next up - infrastructure with reconciliation.

‘They’ say that if the other bill gets passed that’s all they will be able to do until after the midterms (except for bills like naming Post Offices).

I hope Biden can prove them wrong on this. It’s really ridiculous that important legislation for the people can only be accomplished in the first 2 years.

If so it’s reconciliation year 2022! I don’t think Joe is going to be satisfied with the status quo in years 2-4.

[djacq]

19. Awesome! Now, about Voting Rights.

Democracy is on life support.

[mahina]

20. Awesome work!

[mahina]

21. That is fabulous!

[jalan48]

22. In May, the Republican's made a counter offer of $928 billion to the Dem's $2 trillion for

infrastructure. Is this the bipartisanship we are talking about?

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/1000717244/senate-republicans-release-928-billion-infrastructure-counteroffer

[AZSkiffyGeek]

34. You DO know there is another, bigger bill coming?

The reconciliation bill? You HAVE heard about that? Or just looking to shit over the Democrats' accomplishments?

[jalan48]

37. Are YOU sure it's going to happen? I'm simply pointing out that the bipartisan effort is basically

what the Republican's proposed. Wave those pom poms!

[True Blue American]

25. Yes, but

The Senate just passed the second bill into debate.

Bernie now speaking!

[Warpy]

26. Gee, it only took 8 months of pissing, moaning, and foot dragging

Seems like they're in an awfully big hurry.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

28. Great news!

A political and substantive win for President Biden, especially if the reconciliation package also goes through.

Very unfortunate that the Cuomo news is overshadowing it right now-- couldn't Cuomo have announced his news on a different (ideally earlier) day?

[appleannie1]

30. That is good. Hope they can get the second half of that through too.

[PatSeg]

31. Whoa, are we living in some alternate universe all of a sudden???

[Snackshack]

35. Great

However unless legislation gets passed protecting voter rights when the GOP takes back the majority as they most likely will if the legislation states have been pushing gets passed. They will just pass legislation undoing this bill.

[fescuerescue]

38. Does it still have the crypto provisions in the Bill?