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Sinema slams delay of infrastructure vote: 'Inexcusable'
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Saturday slammed the decision to delay a vote this week on the bipartisan infrastructure deal that she helped negotiate, calling it “inexcusable.”
Good-faith negotiations, the Arizona centrist argued, "require trust."
"Over the course of this year, Democratic leaders have made conflicting promises that could not all be kept — and have, at times, pretended that differences of opinion within our party did not exist, even when those disagreements were repeatedly made clear directly and publicly," Sinema said in a statement.
“Canceling the infrastructure vote further erodes that trust. More importantly, it betrays the trust the American people have placed in their elected leaders and denies our country crucial investments to expand economic opportunities,” Sinema continued.
In August, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed through the Senate in August in a 69-30 vote. The bill sought to provide funding for "traditional" infrastructure such as repairing bridges and roads. The bill was negotiated by President Biden as well as Senate moderates from both sides of the aisle.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/575026-sinema-slams-delay-of-infrastructure-vote-inexcusable
Good-faith negotiations, the Arizona centrist argued, "require trust."
"Over the course of this year, Democratic leaders have made conflicting promises that could not all be kept — and have, at times, pretended that differences of opinion within our party did not exist, even when those disagreements were repeatedly made clear directly and publicly," Sinema said in a statement.
“Canceling the infrastructure vote further erodes that trust. More importantly, it betrays the trust the American people have placed in their elected leaders and denies our country crucial investments to expand economic opportunities,” Sinema continued.
In August, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed through the Senate in August in a 69-30 vote. The bill sought to provide funding for "traditional" infrastructure such as repairing bridges and roads. The bill was negotiated by President Biden as well as Senate moderates from both sides of the aisle.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/575026-sinema-slams-delay-of-infrastructure-vote-inexcusable
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She's one of the reasons they're delaying!!!1
Curtsy McDownvote
I'm having a hard time keeping up
Painting both Sinema and Machin into more of a corner.
But, of course, both senators still have plenty of room to be mavericky.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215915373
Sinema and Manchin's plan crashes and burns after a key miscalculation
Multiple reports confirmed that the president's message was clear. The bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in August isn't going to pass the House until there's a deal within the Democratic Party on the reconciliation bill — which includes a slew of tax increases and social program spending that progressives are demanding.
What this means in the short term is that the more conservative Democrats — including Sinema and Manchin, but also some House members such as Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey — aren't getting their way. They wanted the bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass the House and become law before the formal negotiations began on the reconciliation package.
Manchin, Sinema, and Gottheimer seemed genuinely surprised that their plan didn't work. But there's no reason for shock. The congressional progressives and the Democratic leadership made clear from the start that they viewed both bills as an inseparable pair — the "two-track process," as it was called. Everyone was aware of this — despite Manchin's later claims of ignorance. This process was the reason progressives tolerated the conservatives' efforts during the spring and summer to work extensively with Republicans to get bipartisan agreement in the Senate on the infrastructure bill.
https://www.rawstory.com/manchin-sinema/
Sinema and Manchin's plan crashes and burns after a key miscalculation
Multiple reports confirmed that the president's message was clear. The bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in August isn't going to pass the House until there's a deal within the Democratic Party on the reconciliation bill — which includes a slew of tax increases and social program spending that progressives are demanding.
What this means in the short term is that the more conservative Democrats — including Sinema and Manchin, but also some House members such as Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey — aren't getting their way. They wanted the bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass the House and become law before the formal negotiations began on the reconciliation package.
Manchin, Sinema, and Gottheimer seemed genuinely surprised that their plan didn't work. But there's no reason for shock. The congressional progressives and the Democratic leadership made clear from the start that they viewed both bills as an inseparable pair — the "two-track process," as it was called. Everyone was aware of this — despite Manchin's later claims of ignorance. This process was the reason progressives tolerated the conservatives' efforts during the spring and summer to work extensively with Republicans to get bipartisan agreement in the Senate on the infrastructure bill.
https://www.rawstory.com/manchin-sinema/
President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of 21 senators reached a compromise Thursday to modernize the nation's deteriorating transportation and public works systems, putting the president in position to pass the first plank of his sweeping infrastructure agenda.
Yet Biden made clear he would only sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill if Congress also approves a larger measure focused on "human infrastructure" programs like subsidized child care, home caregiving and climate change that only Democrats support.
Yet Biden made clear he would only sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill if Congress also approves a larger measure focused on "human infrastructure" programs like subsidized child care, home caregiving and climate change that only Democrats support.
Who could that possibly be over Biden's left shoulder?
It reads exactly like a Republican talking point statement.
That I forgot to laugh!
She knows damn well what she is doing is inexcusable and threatening the well being of millions of people. Sociopath.
Kyrsten Sinema
@kyrstensinema
We need to make health care more affordable, lower prescription drug prices, and fix the problems in the system – not go back to letting insurance companies call all the shots. #AZSen
A Pro-Biden Super Pac even ran adverts for her in summer 2021
BUT THEN...................................
Sinema tells White House she’s opposed to current prescription drug plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/kyrsten-sinema-biden-drug-pricing-prescription-plan-512907
Big Pharma, medical firms donated $750K to Kyrsten Sinema — then she opposed drug bill
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema--then-she-opposed-bill/
also
soooooooo
she can spare me the whingeing about good-faith
(and I have not even brought up all the other lobbyist and corporate money that she has raked in and how she now opposes most of the Biden tax increases to varying degrees)
It is all working out SO well for her.............
her numbers with AZ Dems: Favourable 17%, Unfavourable 65%
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/27/2054753/-Sinema-s-unforced-errors-have-cost-her-big-time-with-Arizona-Democrats
@kyrstensinema
We need to make health care more affordable, lower prescription drug prices, and fix the problems in the system – not go back to letting insurance companies call all the shots. #AZSen
Link to tweet
A Pro-Biden Super Pac even ran adverts for her in summer 2021
BUT THEN...................................
Sinema tells White House she’s opposed to current prescription drug plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/kyrsten-sinema-biden-drug-pricing-prescription-plan-512907
Big Pharma, medical firms donated $750K to Kyrsten Sinema — then she opposed drug bill
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema--then-she-opposed-bill/
also
soooooooo
she can spare me the whingeing about good-faith
(and I have not even brought up all the other lobbyist and corporate money that she has raked in and how she now opposes most of the Biden tax increases to varying degrees)
It is all working out SO well for her.............
her numbers with AZ Dems: Favourable 17%, Unfavourable 65%
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/27/2054753/-Sinema-s-unforced-errors-have-cost-her-big-time-with-Arizona-Democrats
reinforces progressives' distrust that the reconciliation bill will get passed if they would just hurry up and pass the infrastructure bill first.
This is beyond surreal.
She is as mentally ill as TFG
