Nine House Democrats Demand Pelosi Allow Passage of Infrastructure Bill Ahead of Budget Resolution
District of Columbia | August 13, 2021
Nine Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to quickly allow a vote on the Senate-passed infrastructure bill before the lower chamber considers the larger, $3.5 trillion budget resolution.
The House should “immediately pass” the infrastructure legislation, they wrote to Pelosi.
“We urge our House colleagues to follow the same path as the Senate: vote first on the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and then consider the budget resolution,” they said.
Senate Democrats got Republican support for the infrastructure legislation, but none for the budget framework, which they rammed through on Wednesday using a process called budget reconciliation.
Pelosi told reporters earlier this week that she will not allow a vote on the infrastructure bill until the reconciliation process is complete. The Senate advanced the resolution, but details of the budget have yet to be hammered out. The Senate would enter in details after the House passed the resolution.
“I’m not taking up that,” Pelosi said, referring to the infrastructure bill… (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)