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Senate Votes to Advance $1 Trillion Bipartisan
Infrastructure Proposal

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/28/2021 8:14:47 PM

The Senate voted 67–32 to advance a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal on Wednesday night. The vote comes one month after negotiators initially said they had reached a deal on infrastructure. A bipartisan group of ten senators and the White House then spent weeks finalizing the details of the proposal. The 17 Republican senators who voted to move the bill to formal debate included Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Senators Richard Burr (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (W. Va.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Todd Young (Ind.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Roy Blunt (Mo.),

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Reply 1 - Posted by: marbles 7/28/2021 8:16:54 PM (No. 860650)
What was their price ? What were they promised ?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: John C 7/28/2021 8:22:36 PM (No. 860653)
Betrayed again!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 7/28/2021 8:24:18 PM (No. 860654)
Don'tcha love robbers, I mean leaders, that spend money that isn't there's, and that they do not have? At least its not 3.5T, but they will pass that at a later date.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Come And Take It 7/28/2021 8:46:57 PM (No. 860671)
McConnell sells out again. Now lets see if Nanzi does what she said yesterday, and refuse to call this bipartisan trash for a vote unless the 3.5T bill passes first. Read today that over a trillion of the last pandemic money hasn't been spent yet, so exactly why do we need another trillion here?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: downnout 7/28/2021 8:47:17 PM (No. 860672)
Jerks….and traitors.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Venturer 7/28/2021 8:47:21 PM (No. 860673)
So Mitch fell in with the other RINO's.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Nimby 7/28/2021 8:49:30 PM (No. 860677)
Not their money. What do they care?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 7/28/2021 9:02:32 PM (No. 860693)
The Usual Suspects + some new hangers on.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: The Remnants 7/28/2021 9:07:37 PM (No. 860699)
And I have read that pharmaceutical companies are making BILLIONS with the still-classified-as-"experimental'-vaccine for covid. Does anyone have a clue as to when this experimental vaccine is going to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration? Do any of our representatives even care about this question, or are any of them at all concerned? Do any of them have children or grandchildren? Do they always only think of themselves and their wallets and pocketbooks?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: itsonlyme 7/28/2021 9:11:46 PM (No. 860701)
Mitch "Multiuseless" McConnell leading the RINO charge! Holy Guacamole, the multitude of RINO'S. Mitch "Multiuseless" McConnell knows how to play footies with many people. He loves being the puke that he is.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: RedWhite&Blue2 7/28/2021 9:18:35 PM (No. 860709)
How long does it take a radical left moron to count to a trillion? Oh I forgot, math is racist!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/28/2021 9:26:03 PM (No. 860714)
We can never win because half the Republicans standing behind us are stabbing us in the back.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: cor-vet 7/28/2021 9:57:00 PM (No. 860745)
That list is a viable list of the RINO's that need hanging, they're traitors to their party and to the people that elected them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: skacmar 7/29/2021 7:14:21 AM (No. 860943)
The RINOs are still under the illusion that it is better to give the illusion of bipartisanship and make everyone think you are doing something; than to actually stand up for real beliefs and prevent something bad. Pelosi will never let the Senate version pass. It will be changed and amended until it is unrecognizable and will never pass.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Yuban 7/29/2021 8:11:07 AM (No. 860984)
Once again the GOP gives us the shaft and yet we keep electing them. It will never change unless we change.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Bur Oak 7/29/2021 8:12:52 AM (No. 860987)
The uniparty votes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Clinger 7/29/2021 8:46:55 AM (No. 861024)
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ... The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. ... If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. ... I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. ... The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. .... " ---Thomas Jefferson
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