No matter what one feels about Jamaal Bowman, and I might have voted against him had I lived in his CD

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153. Do you have any evidence for that claim? Clearly, Clyburn had to whip GOP crossover votes

to get the bill to Biden's desk.

Pelosi and Clyburn were certainly aware that there were some Democrats who intended to vote with the majority of Republicans, but where does the assertion that those votes were "cleared" come from?

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SC's Jim Clyburn takes credit for whipping 13 GOP votes for Biden's infrastructure package

NORTH CHARLESTON — House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn took credit for securing the 13 GOP votes necessary to push President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure plan across the finish line last week, but some Republicans are saying Democratic pressure is overblown.

Speaking to reporters at the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments office in North Charleston on Nov. 9, the Democratic congressman from Columbia took some credit over the passage of the bill, which will bring $6 billion in federal dollars to South Carolina.

"I indirectly whipped those votes," Clyburn told The Post and Courier. "I had members in the caucus assigned to certain Republican people that I couldn't talk to and that's how we got those votes."

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/scs-jim-clyburn-takes-credit-for-whipping-13-gop-votes-for-bidens-infrastructure-package/article_64e731c6-4191-11ec-89d2-af61ab228177.html

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SC to get $6B from the infrastructure bill. How Jim Clyburn got it to Biden’s desk

Congressman Jim Clyburn was confident he would secure enough votes to pass President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill after a day of arm twisting, which put Democrats on the precipice of their most important legislative victory since the party reclaimed the White House. But there were a handful of holdouts who Clyburn, the chief vote counter for House Democrats, had outstanding concerns about heading into the Friday evening vote.

The South Carolina congressman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gathered with staff just off the House floor in a small, gilded, gold room that had little more than a printer, chairs and a monitor that displays vote totals. Pelosi was speaking to the president on her cell phone and asked Clyburn to update Biden on the status of negotiations.

“I need you to talk to him, to explain to him where we are,” Clyburn recalled Pelosi telling him. “So I told the president that I thought that we were in a good place. That we could pass a bill. But I thought that he needed to get on the phone with several people.”

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“And I told him I thought he just needed to let them know that it’s time to pass this bill, and we need to do it tonight. And he did. He got on the phone with those people,” Clyburn said.

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article255742646.html