18 Republicans Side With Democrats as Senate Breaks Filibuster to Start Debate on Infrastructure Bill
District of Columbia | July 29, 2021
A bipartisan Senate vote late Wednesday means senators will begin debate on an infrastructure package endorsed by members of both parties.
The Senate voted 67–32 to break the filibuster and trigger debate on the package, which is listed as a House bill as Senate negotiators hammer out the package’s language.
Republicans backing the package were: Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), John Hoeven (N.D.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio), Jim Risch (Idaho), Mitt Romney (Utah), Thom Tillis (N.C.), and Todd Young (Ind.), along with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“At a time when Washington seems broken, this group of members behind me came together, along with others, and decided we were going to do something great for our country,” Portman, who is retiring after his current term is up, told a press conference after the vote…. (Excerpts from The Epoch Times)