Law Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Signed into law 11/15/21

Rob Battisti said:
So, Dems are refusing a vote on ANY amendments? Is there still a chance they may vote on amendments or are they really that obtuse? They are going to sink an infant crypto market with their ignorance. What a fucking world we live in.
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its not ignorance. its maliciousness. the government hates the average citizen
 
Whippy McGee said:
^^^^^ This 100%

How we get these assholes in D.C. that think we have magic money trees is insane. Where is the fiscal responsibility? This goes for both parties... fuck them.
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They don't care they will die by the time we have to pay it back and not get SS.
 
One awful bill, one terrible bill: Hope that Dems’ double-dealing dooms them both

https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/one-a...ope-that-dems-double-dealing-dooms-them-both/

The $1 trillion “infrastructure” plan poised to pass the Senate is a bad bill; the only possible excuse its Republican backers have is the claim that it may help stop a truly terrible one — the $3.5 trillion social-spendapalooza Democrats will introduce next.

Contra the hype, the 2,700-page “bad” bill won’t pay for itself, and only a tenth of its spending ($110 billion) is for roads, bridges and other major infrastructure projects. (And even that includes plenty of waste, since as the White House notes most of it “will be subject to Davis-Bacon requirements,” meaning union-friendly prevailing-wage rules that vastly boost costs.)

Meanwhile, the bill drops plenty on Dem wish-list projects: $65 billion to expand broadband Internet access, including a new federal entitlement for low-income households, $73 billion for clean-energy transmission and $7.5 billion for an electric-vehicle-charging network.

The “pays for itself” claim is bunk: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it’ll add $256 billion to the deficit over the next decade. (That rises to $350 billion when you add in $90 billion in new contract-authority spending, notes the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Marc Goldwein.) Notably, it pretends that using leftover COVID-relief funds and unemployment benefits will save $263 billion; the CBO says it’d be more like $22 billion.

SEE ALSO
Senate advances Biden’s $1.2T infrastructure package with 18 GOP votes
Worse: Once the Senate passes this mess, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, it will then take up the $3.5 trillion package — a horror aiming to turn America into the welfare state of Bernie Sanders’ dreams. It would hike taxes on business and the wealthy to create multiple new entitlements: universal preschool, free community college, paid family and medical leave. It would expand Medicare benefits while reducing the program’s eligibility age, dump more cash on “green energy” subsidies — and even offer immigrants green cards, though the plan Schumer unveiled Monday doesn’t give details on exactly which immigrants would get them.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing the infrastructure bill, with the calculation that it will give a win to Dem moderates like Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and encourage them to hold the line against the bigger bill. Schumer plans to ram through the larger package using reconciliation and can’t afford to lose one Democrat vote. But that’s a huge risk.

One nice wrinkle: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won’t introduce the $1 trillion bill in the House unless the $3.5 trillion bill also passes the Senate. So pray first that the terrible bill dies — and that Pelosi then sticks to her guns.
 
Biden has officially accomplished more in 6 months than the previous administration did in 4 years. Well done Joe!

Bi-Partisan bitches.
 
Beechwood said:
One awful bill, one terrible bill: Hope that Dems’ double-dealing dooms them both

https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/one-a...ope-that-dems-double-dealing-dooms-them-both/

The $1 trillion “infrastructure” plan poised to pass the Senate is a bad bill; the only possible excuse its Republican backers have is the claim that it may help stop a truly terrible one — the $3.5 trillion social-spendapalooza Democrats will introduce next.

Contra the hype, the 2,700-page “bad” bill won’t pay for itself, and only a tenth of its spending ($110 billion) is for roads, bridges and other major infrastructure projects. (And even that includes plenty of waste, since as the White House notes most of it “will be subject to Davis-Bacon requirements,” meaning union-friendly prevailing-wage rules that vastly boost costs.)

Meanwhile, the bill drops plenty on Dem wish-list projects: $65 billion to expand broadband Internet access, including a new federal entitlement for low-income households, $73 billion for clean-energy transmission and $7.5 billion for an electric-vehicle-charging network.

The “pays for itself” claim is bunk: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it’ll add $256 billion to the deficit over the next decade. (That rises to $350 billion when you add in $90 billion in new contract-authority spending, notes the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Marc Goldwein.) Notably, it pretends that using leftover COVID-relief funds and unemployment benefits will save $263 billion; the CBO says it’d be more like $22 billion.

SEE ALSO
Senate advances Biden’s $1.2T infrastructure package with 18 GOP votes
Worse: Once the Senate passes this mess, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, it will then take up the $3.5 trillion package — a horror aiming to turn America into the welfare state of Bernie Sanders’ dreams. It would hike taxes on business and the wealthy to create multiple new entitlements: universal preschool, free community college, paid family and medical leave. It would expand Medicare benefits while reducing the program’s eligibility age, dump more cash on “green energy” subsidies — and even offer immigrants green cards, though the plan Schumer unveiled Monday doesn’t give details on exactly which immigrants would get them.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing the infrastructure bill, with the calculation that it will give a win to Dem moderates like Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and encourage them to hold the line against the bigger bill. Schumer plans to ram through the larger package using reconciliation and can’t afford to lose one Democrat vote. But that’s a huge risk.

One nice wrinkle: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won’t introduce the $1 trillion bill in the House unless the $3.5 trillion bill also passes the Senate. So pray first that the terrible bill dies — and that Pelosi then sticks to her guns.
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this post article just describes a lot of great programs Americans voted for last election and then slaps some hyperbole filled click bait headline on it.
 
Beechwood said:
One awful bill, one terrible bill: Hope that Dems’ double-dealing dooms them both

https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/one-a...ope-that-dems-double-dealing-dooms-them-both/

The $1 trillion “infrastructure” plan poised to pass the Senate is a bad bill; the only possible excuse its Republican backers have is the claim that it may help stop a truly terrible one — the $3.5 trillion social-spendapalooza Democrats will introduce next.

Contra the hype, the 2,700-page “bad” bill won’t pay for itself, and only a tenth of its spending ($110 billion) is for roads, bridges and other major infrastructure projects. (And even that includes plenty of waste, since as the White House notes most of it “will be subject to Davis-Bacon requirements,” meaning union-friendly prevailing-wage rules that vastly boost costs.)

Meanwhile, the bill drops plenty on Dem wish-list projects: $65 billion to expand broadband Internet access, including a new federal entitlement for low-income households, $73 billion for clean-energy transmission and $7.5 billion for an electric-vehicle-charging network.

The “pays for itself” claim is bunk: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it’ll add $256 billion to the deficit over the next decade. (That rises to $350 billion when you add in $90 billion in new contract-authority spending, notes the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Marc Goldwein.) Notably, it pretends that using leftover COVID-relief funds and unemployment benefits will save $263 billion; the CBO says it’d be more like $22 billion.

SEE ALSO
Senate advances Biden’s $1.2T infrastructure package with 18 GOP votes
Worse: Once the Senate passes this mess, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, it will then take up the $3.5 trillion package — a horror aiming to turn America into the welfare state of Bernie Sanders’ dreams. It would hike taxes on business and the wealthy to create multiple new entitlements: universal preschool, free community college, paid family and medical leave. It would expand Medicare benefits while reducing the program’s eligibility age, dump more cash on “green energy” subsidies — and even offer immigrants green cards, though the plan Schumer unveiled Monday doesn’t give details on exactly which immigrants would get them.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing the infrastructure bill, with the calculation that it will give a win to Dem moderates like Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and encourage them to hold the line against the bigger bill. Schumer plans to ram through the larger package using reconciliation and can’t afford to lose one Democrat vote. But that’s a huge risk.

One nice wrinkle: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won’t introduce the $1 trillion bill in the House unless the $3.5 trillion bill also passes the Senate. So pray first that the terrible bill dies — and that Pelosi then sticks to her guns.
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{<huh}

Expanding internet access is terrible to the clown who wrote this. I love how he picks 3 things he thinks his audience won't like while ignoring everything else in the bill. He doesn't even bring up the actual bad things about the bill.
 
Josh Hawley called this bill woke. Does that word not mean anything anymore?
 
foxnewsfan said:
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she won't allow a vote on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill until the Democrats' $3.5 trillion filibuster-proof reconciliation bill passes."
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I'm sure Shumer held a vote on a bi partisan bill without knowing how his caucus would deal with the reconciliation bill.

Your God king Biden just led a bi partisan accomplishment for America and I can see that upsets you. You shouldn't root against America because Trump lost get over it.
 
Stupid cunt in Alabama voted against the last crypto amendment cause he didn't get his way because had his $50 bil defense spending amendment blocked by Bernie.

Absurd. Still not to late to change the crypto reporting rules though.
 
TeTe said:
Stupid cunt in Alabama voted against the last crypto amendment cause he didn't get his way because had his $50 bil defense spending amendment blocked by Bernie.

Absurd. Still not to late to change the crypto reporting rules though.
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Yea, he is a prime example of how not to use the amendment process. I believe Cruz even tried to put a similar amendment in and he did the same thing. Complete dick.
 
Keep in mind this only passed the Senate. The house hasn't voted yet and Pelosi has been acting like she won't put it up for a vote without a reconciliation bill. Biden clarified he would sign the bipartisan bill with or without reconciliation. The house also passed a bill earlier this summer relating to infrastructure that likely isn't similar enough to the Senate bill to combined.

In the Senate, we will see them moving forward on debate for the reconciliation bill.

Senate Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Handing Biden a Bipartisan Win
New York Times
The Senate gave overwhelming bipartisan approval on Tuesday to a $1 trillion infrastructure bill to rebuild the nation’s deteriorating roads and bridges and fund new climate resilience and broadband initiatives, delivering a key component of President Biden’s agenda.

The vote, 69 to 30, was uncommonly bipartisan. The yes votes included Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, and 18 others from his party who shrugged off increasingly shrill efforts by former President Donald J. Trump to derail it.

“This historic investment in infrastructure is what I believe you, the American people, want, what you’ve been asking for for a long, long time,” Mr. Biden said from the White House as he thanked Republicans for showing “a lot of courage.”

Mr. McConnell, who publicly declared that his priority was stopping the Biden agenda, said in a statement that “I was proud to support today’s historic bipartisan infrastructure deal and prove that both sides of the political aisle can still come together around common-sense solutions.”
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So to the NY times, its a Biden being handed a Bipartisan win. I get it but like, how about it could be a win to the people of the US? Especially since we are paying for it? I'm not blaming Biden because he didn't write the headline. And I don't know him so it doesn't really matter anyway.
 
Topguntrophey said:
So to the NY times, its a Biden being handed a Bipartisan win. I get it but like, how about it could be a win to the people of the US? Especially since we are paying for it? I'm not blaming Biden because he didn't write the headline. And I don't know him so it doesn't really matter anyway.
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Calling it a win for the people is taking a political stance on the bill, it’s saying those who voted against it were voting for an American loss. It’s more of an opinion than a fact. Calling this a win for Biden is more factual because it is a bill that he has been championing.
 
Topguntrophey said:
So to the NY times, its a Biden being handed a Bipartisan win. I get it but like, how about it could be a win to the people of the US? Especially since we are paying for it? I'm not blaming Biden because he didn't write the headline. And I don't know him so it doesn't really matter anyway.
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I think it doesn't play as a win/ lose necessarily by party. For example, someone like Romney probably sees it as a win and even someone against it like Hawley probably consider their no vote a win for how he's positioning himself if he runs for president. I don't really know who to say is the political winners or losers here. Nearly 70 senators voted for it so it wasn't all that divisive of an issue. Maybe you could say slight loss to a GOP 2024 nominee who wants to say they can fix Washington? I don't really know. Still too early to tell.
 
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