Senate Edges Toward Passage of $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
District of Columbia | August 8, 2021
A slow-going Senate debate over a broad $550 billion infrastructure package spilled into Sunday, with lawmakers unable to agree on which final key changes to consider.
Amendments still on the table include proposals for new cryptocurrency rules and flexibility for states and localities that choose to use some unspent pandemic relief funds for roads and bridges. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who helped negotiate the bipartisan proposal, suggested that final passage is two days away.
“Probably it’s going to pass,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “We’ll have a vote tonight at 7:30 and then another vote — if you just look at the clock playing out — sometime on Tuesday. So, it could go quicker, but it’s going.”… (Excerpts from Newsmax)