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Go time for bipartisan infra deal — PolitiTweet.org

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Shoulda known something was up on the infrastructure front today when my Red Line train broke down 5 feet after leaving the station and limped into Fort Totten 20 mins later "bad train, bad train," was the conductor announcement — PolitiTweet.org

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Most of the numbers from the initial framework stayed the same. But public transit went from $48.5b in earlier iteration to $39.2b. Initial framework: https://t.co/BUkTbPv2HE Finalish deal: https://t.co/w5lPQEl0Us — PolitiTweet.org

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It is AMAZING how senators strained to make the financing of this as painless as possible I mean $28 billion "From applying information reporting requirements to cryptocurrency"?!? — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS: Full summary of bipartisan infrastructure deal $550 billion over five years Paid for with $205B in unused covid, $53b unused UI, $49b Medicare rebate delay and $56B in economic growth! (among other things) And hell yeah there's pension smoothing https://t.co/w5lPQEl0Us — PolitiTweet.org

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Leaders say there's at least 10 Rs, but we have nine GOP yeses and two undecideds in the core group: Moran and Young — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn't really different from what Jon Tester has said, which is: I'll vote to move forward but reserve the right to vote against the final product if I don't like it — PolitiTweet.org

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"I have also made clear that while I will support beginning this process, I do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion -- and in the coming months" I read this as: She's not trying to tank the whole thing in the coming days but wants to have impact on final product — PolitiTweet.org

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Sinema statement actually says she supports moving forward on $3.5T budget reconciliation process but will try and cut down the actual spending bill (which is months away) "I have told Senate leadership and President Biden that I support many of the goals in this proposal" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dannowicki: NEW: "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema doesn't support Democrats' $3.5 trillion bill, clinches bipartisan infrastructure deal." (via @yv… — PolitiTweet.org

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! Sen. Todd Young, a GOP member of bipartisan infra group, says he’s undecided on vote tonight. Asked how he will vote, Sen. Bernie Sanders calls effort a “work in progress” vote tonight is gonna be a tight one — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell ads call vaccine a “miracle” “I’m glad that he’s doing those ads, long overdue. This was so self-evident and obvious. Maybe they were getting ... political backlash,” Pelosi said. “Certainly the Republican Party has been delinquent in embracing the science.” — PolitiTweet.org

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We now have a body of clinical data on these vaccinations that far exceeds any medication that everybody takes every morning. So there should be nobody that says ‘this has been rushed, we don’t know what it does,'” Burr said. “We know a hell of a lot about the vaccine.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Blunt even praised President Joe Biden’s work on Covid with a caveat: “I actually think he’s generally doing a good job. I continue to think that we’d be better off if CDC was more transparent about all the numbers they have.” — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell running ads, Tuberville, Burr and Murkowski making increasingly urgent vaccine pleas. Blunt is barnstorming Missouri to urge vaccinations “This is a virus where, if you get very smug about how you think you’ve handled it, you’re about to get run over by a train.” — PolitiTweet.org

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With Trump focused elsewhere and House Rs divided, Senate GOP steps up vaccine push amid conservative skepticism. “I am pro-life, and that’s not just for the unborn. It’s for those that are living. And I don’t want people to die,” Romney says https://t.co/wI3L2ZQ5yg — PolitiTweet.org

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@OmeedFirouzi yeah but there will be a second cloture vote to end debate before that, and that's the last opportunity to people to block bill with filibuster — PolitiTweet.org

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If the bipartisan effort advances tonight, there will be 30 hours before the next vote. Presumably text would be done sometime after that and folded in as a sub As to finishing the bill, question is how many amendment votes are needed to surpass the second 60-vote threshold — PolitiTweet.org

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National Review's @philipaklein writes McConnell should kill the bipartisan infrastructure deal because, among other things, there's no text https://t.co/ZbEz1jegI8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Hmm, Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a member of the larger bipartisan group, missed the first vote today. Could be something to watch. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marianne_levine: Today might actually be the day. Senate Republicans are increasingly likely to move forward on a bipartisan framework… — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems like there’s a good chance this advances — PolitiTweet.org

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Do you think you have 10 Republicans? Romney: “I do” — PolitiTweet.org

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Another member of larger group, Sen. Burr also says he’s “inclined” to advance the effort but is waiting to see final language — PolitiTweet.org

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Bipartisan group has five Rs ready to move forward, and on the verge of a sixth. Sen. Graham says he’s “inclined to” advance the effort “I haven’t looked at it all but I’m fairly positive about it” Needs at least 10 Rs — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Cornyn says he won’t vote to proceed to an infrastructure bill that’s not written and said it’s “uncertain” whether 10 Republicans would do so tonight — PolitiTweet.org

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New: Senate Dems will have special caucus today at 1 p.m. as infrastructure deal is maybe actually coming together — PolitiTweet.org

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Some actual news: Schumer says Senate might vote again on proceeding to infrastructure bill as "early as tonight" — PolitiTweet.org

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@StephenGutowski The best way to survive the zombie apocalypse is to be a zombie duh — PolitiTweet.org