Democrats dutifully passed the legislation on a party-line vote
—more than six months after it was proposed. Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the House, decided to forestall the inevitable by staging a one-man, eight-and-a-half-hour stemwinder . A few hours after Mr McCarthy’s discursions on, among other things, the cost of a Tesla car, George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River and the production method for baby carrots concluded, around 5am, .
on November 2nd—where the president had won handily only the year before—seemed to augur a coming electoral wipeout.bipartisan infrastructure deal The House version incorporates some of the edits that Democratic senators, particularly Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema—moderates on whose votes the bill’s fate hinges—have been demanding. The recently released score by the Congressional Budget Office found that the pending legislation would spend $1.7trn over the coming decade—a fraction of the sum the White House had originally pitched.
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