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Biden touts progress during candid meetings on $3 5T plan
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I m not looking at a dollar figure. I m looking at more of what we re spending it on, Tester said.
Biden s $2.3 trillion proposal includes money for roads and bridges, broadband, rail and water systems, but it also includes funding for in-home care, housing, clean energy, public schools and manufacturing.
Democrats have warned that they are willing to go it alone to pass Biden s infrastructure plan, but that would require the unity of their entire 50-member caucus.
A group of centrist-minded Democratic senators are talking up the possibility of peeling off part of Biden s proposal that garners bipartisan support and passing it as its own bill. Democrats could then try to get the rest of their package approved through budget reconciliation rules that would allow them to avoid a filibuster that would require 60 votes.
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Merkley, 64, is at the center of the caucus’s increasingly public debate over whether to reform the 60-vote legislative filibuster, a decision that will have deep ramifications for how many of President Biden
Merkley has been intensely but quietly lobbying his colleagues about the potential for changes to the filibuster, as well as taking part in a bipartisan group discussing smaller rules changes, efforts he ties to a decision made last year when he ran for a third term.
“I was wrestling with whether to run for reelection. I’ve got a limited number of years of life. I could do many different things. . I thought well if I run for reelection it’s going to be because I make an all-out push to restore the Senate as a functioning body,” Merkley told The Hill, noting that he’s spoken to every member of the Democratic caucus over the past year.
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The package provides another round of stimulus checks, aid for state and local governments, and more help for small businesses and schools. The party-line vote is a significant break from the previous five coronavirus bills, each of which passed with bipartisan support.
The Senate was in session for more than 24 hours, including all night Friday and well into Saturday, ahead of the final vote as Democrats fended off attempts by GOP senators to make changes to the legislation, which now has to go back to the House before it can be sent to President Biden’s desk.
The House will take up the bill on Tuesday for a vote and plans to send it to Biden s desk for a signature early next week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
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