Republicans scramble to secure infrastructure support ahead of failed vote

Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to move forward on a bipartisan infrastructure proposal Wednesday, arguing the party could not advance a plan that is still being negotiated.

The letter stipulates that Republicans “intend to [advance] the bill pending final negotiations that are going through right now and on getting a score back” on the bill’s financing, said a Republican senator familiar with the letter. But Republican leaders remain skeptical that the conference will provide the votes to move forward until the group finally produces hundreds of pages of legislative text.

Portman and other Republicans want to demonstrate to Schumer that Republicans will move forward, just not on Wednesday. Schumer set up the vote on an unfinished bill to put pressure on the negotiators to finish up their work after months of talks among Republicans, the White House and Senate Democrats.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a leading Democrat in the group, said he felt “confident” their effort would have the 60 votes to advance over a filibuster by next week. Manchin said “at first I was concerned” that Wednesday’s failed vote might send “the wrong message” about the state of negotiations. But Schumer reassured him that if 60 votes exist to pass it, the vote will come up again.

"We all want the same thing, to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. But in order to finish the bill, we first need to start," Schumer said Wednesday morning. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell countered that Schumer was "intent on holding a vote he knows will fail." He called Schumer's tactics a "stunt."

The larger bipartisan group of senators will gather on Wednesday for a pivotal lunch as they labor to clinch a plan to spend nearly $600 billion in new money on roads, bridges and broadband. The core 10 members of that group met late Tuesday and are close to finishing their agreement, though drafting the actual legislation will take several more days.

It time to rFeUpCuKbTlHiEcMaAnLsL and just abolish the filibuster and go it alone. When will Dems wake up to the fact that the GOO wants a single party government?

of course .... republicans do nothing !!

You know they’re not going to do anything bipartisan, right? Just get on with reconciliation

Next week Republicans will again claim that they are working on their own plan but haven’t finished. They just stall.

It was a 'test' vote to see where the parties are. Schumer changed his vote to NO when he saw where McConnell's GOP votes were going, allowing another vote at a later date.

Question: When has the filibuster ever built a bridge?

Let’s be specific. Voting was to Advance TO DISCUSS the plan not pass the bill!! This is such a disingenuous effort by the GOP! In the end they will pass nothing and whine about it all while trying to take credit for it. 😠

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