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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,808 posts)
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 08:33 PM Sep 2021

Fifth House Republican comes out in support of bipartisan infrastructure bill

Source: The Hill

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) came out in support of the bipartisan infrastructure bill Thursday, becoming the fifth House Republican to do so.

The five Republicans are backing the Senate-passed bill despite the fact that their leadership team is whipping members against it.

"First of all, I think we need hard infrastructure. I worked on this bill from the beginning as part of the Problem Solvers so it's been a half-Republican, half-Democrat effort," Bacon told reporters. "I think it's an area we can show Congress working."

Bacon also said he thought it was wrong for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to "pick this fight." McCarthy criticized the bill as not being bipartisan.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fifth-house-republican-comes-out-in-support-of-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill/ar-AAOKENY?li=BBnb7Kz



That's the lesser bill passed by the Senate. I'd rather have this than nothing but hope we can do better.
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Fifth House Republican comes out in support of bipartisan infrastructure bill (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
A spine is born? From the primordial ooze comes an invertebrate capable of evolution? Evolve Dammit Sep 2021 #1
I still think tt's merely an exoskeleton BumRushDaShow Sep 2021 #2
more of a "macro-invertebrate" in a larval state? Evolve Dammit Sep 2021 #3
... BumRushDaShow Sep 2021 #6
The Hill again, gab13by13 Sep 2021 #4
By pointing out facts? What in that article "divides Democrats"? n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2021 #5

BumRushDaShow

(169,886 posts)
2. I still think tt's merely an exoskeleton
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 09:01 PM
Sep 2021

When they are done being "bipartisan", they shed it and are back to being "gelatinous" again.

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