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Senate advances Biden’s $1.2T infrastructure package with 18 GOP votes
NY Post ^ | August 7, 2021 | 2:45pm | Jon Levine

Posted on 08/07/2021 1:26:44 PM PDT by conservative98

The Senate moved to advance President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package on Saturday, clearing a key procedural hurdle to end debate and clear the bill.

The 67 – 23 vote to invoke cloture beat back GOP efforts to filibuster the bill. A total of 18 Republicans voted with every Democrat to advance the bipartisan measure.

The vote takes the bill one step closer to final passage which could come as early as Saturday afternoon. Among the Republicans voting in favor to advance the bill was Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.

“Republicans and Democrats have radically different visions these days, but both those visions include physical infrastructure that works for all of our citizens,” he said in remarks just before the cloture vote.

The bill now proceeds into an amendment process, which the Republican leader warned needed to be thorough.

“There are many outstanding amendments that are important that would improve the legislation, and deserve votes before the Senate is asked to vote on final passage of the bill,” McConnell said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: americanmarxism; andagain; chinamitch; infrastructure; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell
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1 posted on 08/07/2021 1:26:44 PM PDT by conservative98
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2 posted on 08/07/2021 1:28:38 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Let’s keep re-electing Assistant Democrats....../s

You have to keep voting for the R

No matter how bad they are

Rah Rah Romney

Hail Hail Haley


3 posted on 08/07/2021 1:31:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98
Republicans and Democrats have radically different visions these days ...

ROTFL. Ok, well, they are all hallucinating legitimacy, so there is that.

4 posted on 08/07/2021 1:32:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: conservative98
Traitors are useless to both sides. Precisely who does McConnnell & Co. think they're ingratiating himself to? Certainly not to the people who put them in office.
5 posted on 08/07/2021 1:34:19 PM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Big day for bipartisan infrastructure bill.

America is in desperate need of real infrastructure improvements and the Senate needs to prove to the country that it can still get big things done.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 7, 2021


6 posted on 08/07/2021 1:34:27 PM PDT by conservative98
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We were all taken to the cleaners with these scum retched GOP rats


7 posted on 08/07/2021 1:37:05 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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To: conservative98

So 1.2 T in the senate, is that the same bill that came in through the House?

Are we gonna get cleaned in a reconciliation?


8 posted on 08/07/2021 1:41:49 PM PDT by Bayard
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As I understand, the House has not yet taken up this bill.

But after they pass their version of it, if there are differences with the Senate bill, it would have to go to the conference committee, then back to each house to vote on for final passage.

I keep hearing there is a $3.5 trillion bill in the pipeline too, but for some reason, the Democrats decided to deal with this $1.2 trillion bill first.

And apparently nobody is concerned about trillions in deficit spending, or a national debt approaching $30 trillion.


9 posted on 08/07/2021 1:47:30 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
B13201-AE-06-F0-479-B-BDEC-09-DA0-E2-DFF80
You’ve been scammed

Lays the groundwork for multiple mandatory Auto Govt surveillance initiatives

10 posted on 08/07/2021 1:52:32 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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https://mobile.twitter.com/RepublicanStudy/status/1422308376130764801/photo/1


11 posted on 08/07/2021 1:53:02 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: conservative98

Trashy Turtle. Jerk.


12 posted on 08/07/2021 1:56:19 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The Democrats need the cover of this bipartisan “infrastructure” bill for their country killing reconciliation bill and EVERY Republican voting for it KNOWS it.


13 posted on 08/07/2021 1:57:45 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

Time to study history and choose.
Are we going to relive the hyperinflation of Germany, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, and Venezuela?
Or are we going to relive our own past under President Lincoln?
Neither option will be pretty.


14 posted on 08/07/2021 1:58:23 PM PDT by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: conservative98

Infrastructure bill has a mileage tax..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3981687/posts


15 posted on 08/07/2021 1:58:32 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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The Republicans Love Joe.

Nancy says this turns into $4.5 Trillion (for Blue Cities).

People won’t wake up, they refuse to believe the obvious.


16 posted on 08/07/2021 2:00:06 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: conservative98

So they voted communist


17 posted on 08/07/2021 2:02:52 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Just keep voting.

As if it matters.

Article V.


18 posted on 08/07/2021 2:05:15 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: conservative98

“President Biden sounded a note of urgency in advance of the Saturday vote, saying in a tweet that the deal was “a historic, once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure” and that “It will create good-paying, union jobs”

Taking care of the unions again eh Joe?


19 posted on 08/07/2021 2:17:48 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: conservative98

Why do we even have a Republican Party?


20 posted on 08/07/2021 2:19:06 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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