Pelosi: House won't take up the bipartisan bill until Senate votes on reconciliation

[andym]

Source: CNN

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear on Thursday that the House won't take up the bipartisan infrastructure bill until the Senate passes a larger, more sweeping infrastructure package through budget reconciliation.

"Let me be really clear on this: We will not take up a bill in the House until the Senate passes the bipartisan bill and a reconciliation bill. If there is no bipartisan bill, then we'll just go when the Senate passes a reconciliation bill," the California Democrat said Thursday during her weekly news conference.

"There ain't gonna be no bipartisan bill, unless we have a reconciliation bill," she said. "As I said, there won't be an infrastructure bill, unless we have a reconciliation bill. Plain and simple. In fact, I use the word ain't. There ain't going to be an infrastructure bill, unless we have the reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate," she reiterated.

Pelosi's statement comes after Republican and Democratic senators said Wednesday evening there was an agreement reached with White House officials and 10 senators on a bipartisan infrastructure deal. And on Thursday afternoon, Biden said he had signed off on the agreement."





Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/pelosi-bipartisan-bill-infrastructure-reconciliation-democrats/index.html

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Looks like there will be two bills or nothing.

[ColinC]

1. Pelosi representing the people

[Budi]

2. K & R Thank You! Speaker Pelosi!!!

[BaronChocula]

3. Yes Woman!

Take control. Use your majority. Outdo the confederates!

[Drum]

4. Smart as always

[paleotn]

5. Plan B if.....

the Repukes renege or McConnell scuttles the bipartisan "camel" bill. A camel being a horse designed by a bipartisan committee.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Hopefully, this will end all the "Biden caved to the GOP" nonsense. Nt

[Bev54]

7. Brilliant!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Consistent with what Joe Biden has said

Biden on Thursday afternoon said he wouldn't sign into law a scaled-down bipartisan package unless Congress also passes his ambitious social spending agenda in a linked reconciliation package, which would likely pass with only Democratic votes.

"If only one comes to me, this is the only one that comes to me, I'm not signing it," he said of a bipartisan infrastructure deal.

"It's in tandem," he added, referring to liberal Democrats' demands that a larger reconciliation package including elements of the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan and $1.8 trillion American Families Plan become law at the same time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-slams-biden-for-already-caving-to-left-on-infrastructure-deal/ar-AALpwla

Paragraphs 4 - 6 of the linked to article.

[Calista241]

9. I suspect Manchin and Sinema won't support a reconciliation bill when a bipartisan deal

Is on the table. It could very well be all of the Dem Senators in that gang that won’t do so.

[dsc]

11. then there won't be a bill at all

that is what Pelosi and Biden are saying, and I don't think any of them want to be blamed for that.

[summer_in_TX]

12. Ya know, Joe seems to have a way about him.

He doesn't give up, on his plan or on people.

I've had this niggling feeling that Joe Manchin is going to ease, step by slow step, in the direction Joe invites him and urges him to go.

They have such a long time together. I just don't think Manchin will ultimately disappoint Joe. Joe's such a good human being, I just don't think Manchin can do it.

I hope I'm right!

[lark]

13. Nancy for Queen of the World!

I love her strategic thinking - For the People - always!!

She is one of our best champions!

[MFGsunny]

14. When Nancy NEVER brings a snowball to a gun fight!! ATTA GURL on how to negotiate. n/t