Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate
 
Earlier today (August 10), by a vote of 69-30, the United States Senate passed bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package which will improve transportation, water and broadband infrastructure nationwide. The bill now heads to the House.
 
Following what is being hailed as a major bipartisan accomplishment, Senate leadership will take up the effort to pass a budget resolution containing spending instructions for a separate $3.5 trillion spending package via the reconciliation process.  The plan includes significant social spending and spending on climate action measures. Using reconciliation will allow them to avoid a filibuster and, potentially, to pass the measure with a simple majority (all 50 Democrat senators plus Vice President Harris as the tie-breaking vote).  As Senate Republicans are unified in opposition to the package, leadership will need the votes of all 50 members of the Democratic Conference. 
 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has indicated that she will not allow House consideration of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package without Senate passage of the $3.5 trillion budget resolution. 

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