Pelosi Statement on Passage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Package

[George II]

Pelosi Statement on Passage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Package

AUGUST 10, 2021 PRESS RELEASE

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Senate passed its bipartisan infrastructure package:

“Today is a day of progress, as the Senate has passed the bipartisan infrastructure package and paved the way for not only rebuilding but reimagining our infrastructure for the 21st Century Economy.

“The leadership of President Biden has seized this once-in-a-century opportunity to Build Back Better for our country. This bipartisan package helps rebuild the middle class as it rebuilds our infrastructure – creating good-paying American jobs and turbocharging American competitiveness and growth.

“The House will continue to work with the Senate to ensure that our priorities For The People are included in the final infrastructure and reconciliation packages, in a way that is resilient and will Build Back Better.”

Link to tweet

[Budi]

1. Standing Ovation to our incredibly skilled Democrats

[Greybnk48]

2. Hear! Hear! n/t

[Budi]

4. Right now, the "establishment" Democrats prove why they are the prefered pols.

Because their years in this business have collectively accomplished what no jr cries to primary the 'old' ones, could even attempt to do.

I'll take these 'establishment' Dems anyday. When it comes to stepping away from the camera & self promotion it's a relief to know who is doing the hard work, heads down, and who is taking their position & experience serious for the salvation of American Democracy.

[gab13by13]

6. You had to go there.

[Budi]

8. I chose to.

Waiting for them to acknowledge the worth of the establishment Democrats.

So far... predictably nothing
Kinda hard to give up that divisive talking pt, I spose.

🙄

[gab13by13]

12. Give me Ted Kennedy

over Joe Lieberman any day of the week, twice on Sundays.

[Cha]

21. Why Not Give the Credit.. there's enough

trying to tear it down.

Damn Straight give Credit to Nancy Pelosi and President Biden.. and the Dem Party!

[FoxNewsSucks]

9. Well, then, I hope they've found the secret

for immortality.

Since we're not supposed to support anyone "new" or "fresh", we'll need them to live forever since they can't be replaced.

[Budi]

10. I expected nothing less from the 'get outta here, you're old & useless" voices.

Our Dems just blew up that old useless talking pt.

Waiting for a sign of maturity & a high five to our experienced Democrats from .....😴

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. As you well know, I didn't say that.

Waiting for a sign that someone realizes new and fresh are ALSO needed, along with wisdom and experience.

Gave up waiting for someone to get off the "establishment is best and ONLY establishment is allowed" schtick.

[Budi]

14. Who said 'only'? That's never been how the Dem Party works. It is about collective strengths learned

Our Party has many very well educated, hard working, self-respectful junior pols who are positioned to step in where someone retires.

We just don't hear of them because while they've been building legislative resumes & learning skills necesssary to maneuver thru the details of building alliances to bring legislation to passage, (no easy task), they also haven't been demanding nor self enriching of publicity.

Me 1st & lobbing juvenile media insults to demean an entire political group you've named yourself after, isn't exactly an attractive feature when coalition building in the legislative body is the only way to do the work they were sent there to do.
Pay attention maybe.

Biden, Schumer & Pelosi's Democrats brought this one to the table & it is a masterplan. A BFFD.

I applaud the wisdom & skillset it took...
#True💙

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. Who said "get outta here you're old & useless"?

Who said there weren't "many very well educated, hard working, self-respectful junior pols"?

Perhaps a response would be better directed toward a poster who actually said a thing instead of one who did not.

But since you mention the topic of publicity, maybe one thing the junior (all, actually) Democratic pols should work on along with the aforementioned skills is media. The corporate media does not help Democrats and that needs to change.

And maybe we should begin to hear of them from time to time, because as they move up they will need to use publicity and media to inform the public and get public support for future things.

[Budi]

17. Ok. This is a stretch.

"And maybe we should begin to hear of them from time to time, because as they move up they will need to use publicity and media to inform the public and get public support for future things."

They are literally everywhere, cameras rolling.
C'mon.

Bye.

[FoxNewsSucks]

18. In post #14,

you yourself said "We just don't hear of them".

Now you say they're "literally everywhere, cameras rolling"?
C'mon.

Have a lovely day.

[Budi]

29. Them, meaning the jr legislators like Underwood, Davis, who aren't busy with self PR.

Media should do us a favor & speak more to them & less to the usual.

There are many bright, well educated & experienced young legislators.
Some carry law degrees.
Some are far mire interested & involved in actual policy writing than others it appears.
Those are the Democrats we need to hear more from.
The usual ones we continuously hear from are becoming redundant in their broad messaging.

These unseen bright minds would be refreshing to hear from.
They are in the trenches along side those 'established' leaders, exchanging ideas for a future & listening to the methids of coalition building, unifying for supporting their policies, appreciating the history of how the Dem Party has carried the American people & avoiding the hurdles encountered by those who walked for years, where they now walk.

There's only one small group offensively advocating for the established Dems to be primaried out of the way.

I'd like to see media speak to those that do work together for a stronger coalition.

[FoxNewsSucks]

16. Does the sentence you edited in

mean to imply that Biden, Schumer & Pelosi's Democrats are the only ones deserving credit?

Shouldn't anyone in the Democratic caucuses who worked on it and got their supporters behind it get some credit? What about Democrats who held the line that it be "big" and not whittled away and watered down by republicons? Can they have some credit?

[Budi]

20. Ya. Still waiting for some notion of credit....chirp...

I actually don't recall these lifelong experienced Democrats ever being credited at all by those others.

I do hear plenty of statements via media, otherwise tho.
What's up with that anyway?
(It's intentional)

[Cha]

25. Nobody says that EVER... I support

"New" & "Fresh" Shontel Brown"..

Link to tweet

Shontel Brown for Congress
@ShontelMBrown
·
Aug 8
I am proud to be the Democratic nominee for this district, and my priority in the coming weeks and months will be laser-focused on listening and getting ready to serve Northeast Ohio in Washington.

[FoxNewsSucks]

26. and I hope she gives her republicon opponent a thorough ass-kicking on election day.

[Budi]

30. And Nina too.

Apparantly she may just return for a second coming!

Shontel Brown will be seated in the House, regardless.

[FoxNewsSucks]

31. No one brought her up.

She's out. Brown will face a republicon, and probably a typically corrupt one. Shouldn't that be our focus instead of a democrat who's already been defeated?

[Budi]

34. Nina wasn't a dem till she entered OH-11. For all I know she's back to being a Peepoles Party

She thru out a threat to Brown about a big 'announcement ' coming in sept.

What she means by that is anybody's guess but speculation within her own red rose group is that she'll return to run again for Marcia Fudge's seat or do all she can to keep Brown from it.

Note: this is from her own Peepoles Party twitter feed ..

Its a grudge match against the House Dems if anything.

Not helpful at all.

[Cha]

32. Thank You!

[betsuni]

42. +1

[patphil]

3. It's not easy working with the Republicans, but we have some really good leaders on our side.

[ananda]

5. We have Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and Harris!

They get the job done!

[gab13by13]

13. Sometimes spiking the football

at half time when leading comes back to bite you. Great accomplishment, but as I said, it's only half time.

[Cha]

27. This isn't Football.. What are you trying to

say?

[PatSeg]

7. You know, initially I didn't care for

the political tagline "Build Back Better". It sounded a little cheesy and overly simplistic, but NOW it seems absolutely perfect. I should have trusted Biden's instincts. It is still a bit hard to say sometimes though, like a tongue twister.

[Cha]

19. That's Democratic Leadership.. brilliant

statement of Nancy's honoring POTUS' Leadership!

How Thoughtful.. the Opposite of pot shots.

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. In the environment of post trumpAmerica this is INCREDIBLE. Now on to the House.

[Orrex]

23. It's been a long time since I saw "I'm Just a Bill"

What happens next?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. What's next? Does the House need to pass it "as-is" from the Senate?

If the House amends it, adding this and that, does it then need to go back to the Senate for 60-vote passage?

[honest.abe]

28. Its my understanding that Pelosi wants both pieces of legislation..

Infrastructure and the massive budget bill. I think many House Dems wont support the infrastructure bill without the budget bill.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

35. So if she adds a massive budget to this infrastructure bill, it goes back to the Senate, ...

... where the odds of getting 60 votes are slim.

If this is the plan, then the Senate just wasted time and breath.

[honest.abe]

37. No, they wouldn't be combined. They would still be voted on separately.

The issue is I think is that many Dems are not entirely happy with the infrastructure bill but will vote for it if the massive budget bill has the key provisions they are looking for. I'm no expert on this but that is what I perceive as what is happening. It may not need to go back to the Senate at all.

[Hortensis]

38. Nancy's taken a stand: the House will pass both bills or NEITHER.

Not the first time by a long shot that she's taken a very hard stand for progressive legislation.

The one that leaps to mind is Pelosi telling President Obama to his face that the house would agree to an ACA bill that included all the provisions in the house bill -- or NO ACA AT ALL. The ACA was Nancy's baby above all, and this was when Biden and senate Dems were afraid they couldn't get the ACA passed and were talking seriously about removing important provisions that were sticking points. That all's why some who were there occasionally admiringly call the ACA Pelosicare.

[honest.abe]

39. Yeah, this is a bold approach.

I suspect she knows what she is doing.

[Hortensis]

40. :) Yes.

[bucolic_frolic]

33. So many Republicans because there's not one good reason to argue against it

Patriotism, jobs, growth, strength.

[mcar]

36. They said it couldn't be done!