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"This week's vote is an honest attempt to get something done," Schumer says. "I am giving the maximum amount of flexibility to our Senate colleagues who are negotiating the bill" — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer says tomorrow "is not a fish or cut bait moment" "It's only a signal that the Senate is ready to get a process started," he adds. "All a yes vote means ... is simply the Senate is ready to begin debating the bipartisan infrastructure bill" — PolitiTweet.org

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Wisconsin's Democratic primary is getting more crowded, and it will be highly consequential for Senate majority fight in 2022 Fundraising email: "My name is Mandela Barnes, and today I am proud to announce that I am running to be the next United States Senator from Wisconsin" — PolitiTweet.org

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Heather basically has the room bugged at this point — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @heatherscope: House T&I Chair Peter DeFazio RIPPED into Senate talks during a private call today DeFazio said he hopes the negotiatio… — PolitiTweet.org

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@hillhulse I smell a book subject — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s all very Senate-y, but Schumer says Democrats negotiating the bipartisan bill, including Sinema and Manchin, support this process. — PolitiTweet.org

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The earliest the bill can be amended is on Thursday, and Schumer says he will make a bipartisan deal the substitute amendment. If there’s no deal, he’d add committee products as infrastructure bill This all assumes 10 Republicans go along with the cloture vote on Wednesday — PolitiTweet.org

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New (but also long planned): Schumer says he will file cloture tonight, setting up Wednesday vote to advance bipartisan infrastructure deal (initial vote is technically on an unrelated bill, would be amended later with bipartisan deal) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Olivia_Beavers: NEWS: @heatherscope and I are told that McCarthy will name Reps. Jim Banks (as ranking member), Jim Jordan, Rodney Davi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Emma_Dumain: NEW: @Sen_JoeManchin WILL vote for @StoneManning to run the Bureau of Land Management! Announcement comes as a committee s… — PolitiTweet.org

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GOP Sen. Shelby said he’s made a new offer on funding Capitol Police, National Guard and Afghanistan totaling just more than $1 billion. Dem Sen. Leahy has asked for three times that amount. Cap Police could run out of money next month — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney indicates he may vote no on Wednesday test vote on infrastructure: “if we are still working on major provisions of the bill and we don’t have a bill in front of us, I won’t be proceeding at that point” — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Portman says he doesn’t know how much more time his group needs to finish the bill but says he feels good about where the group is on infrastructure “I do. It’s too compelling for us not to do this” — PolitiTweet.org

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Dem Sen. Murray. No. 3 in leadership, having none of the GOP complaints over Wednesday vote timing: “it’s Monday in the United States Senate. That’s Wednesday. That’s a long way between then and now” “We need a resolution to this there’s a lot more work to get done” — PolitiTweet.org

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“If he moves ahead arbitrarily before they’ve come to some sort of a deal all it’s going to do is drag it out and make it harder to do in the end,” Thune says of Schumer. Says “the legislation is not drafted, the payfors are a long ways away. Patience is going to be a virtue” — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Minority Whip Thune says as of now Wednesday vote “is not going to get 60, let’s put it that way” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marianne_levine: Senate GOP leaders are signaling Wednesday's vote will fail. Blunt said there is "no chance" that 10 Republicans will… — PolitiTweet.org

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GOP: Bipartisan infrastructure deal has 'no chance' on Wednesday “There’s no bill. You can’t expect that many Republicans to move forward on a pretty vague concept,” says Sen. Blunt ⁦@marianne_levine⁩ https://t.co/oq8XauPHlC — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell warns on impending bipartisan infrastructure vote: “we need to see the bill before voting to go to it. I think that’s pretty easily understood” Will Senate GOP vote down the cloture motion? “We need to see the bill before we decide whether to go forward” — PolitiTweet.org

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@clintonyates Ring: Guess Who’s Back by Scarface Walk-up: Recognize by LOX — PolitiTweet.org

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@StevenTDennis I question how fun this fact is — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankthorp: Q: What happens on Wednesday if you don’t have the bipartisan package completed? TESTER: “Well then they have to put it of… — PolitiTweet.org

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No change so far in Schumer’s plans to force initial test vote on still-unfinished infrastructure bill on Wednesday, per Democrats — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @connorobrienNH: SCOOP: Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed has drafted an amendment to the NDAA that would require women to register… — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats proposing a sweeping rewrite of the military draft laws aimed at requiring women to register for the Selective Service System, according to a draft authored by Senate Armed Services Chair Reed, per draft ⁦@connorobrienNH⁩ https://t.co/R59fZoDqmu — PolitiTweet.org

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@juliemason @philliefan_99 And now there’s multiple Burgess House members — PolitiTweet.org

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@lbarronlopez Would he come down again from $3.5 trillion through negotiations with Manchin and Sinema? He says no way “No. Quite the contrary,” he said, hinting that progressive allies across the Capitol might drive the price back up. “We’ll see what happens in the House.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@lbarronlopez For many years, Sanders played “a kind of gadfly role,” said David Axelrod. But now, he added, Sanders “has comfortably shifted into the role of deal-maker." “You're seeing a very pragmatic Bernie Sanders, but he's pragmatic in a principled way,” — PolitiTweet.org

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@lbarronlopez “It was important to have a vision going forward of where we needed to go. And I think that was the right vision,” Sanders added. “Obviously, it was a vision that was a little bit more comprehensive than some of my colleagues.” Stabenow: “He was able to read the room.” — PolitiTweet.org