(#4552) Big votes in the senate this week

      As we all know the republican party is more interested in dragging out any bipartisan bill that would help the working middle poor class but that tactic will not play come the end of this week. The bipartisan legislation in the senate for infrastructure repair will have a vote on Wednesday, 30 hours after today when Chuck Schumer files cloture. The republican party keeps saying that they are not ready yet to proceed to a vote but they have had plenty of time to work out the details and write their bill with democrats. So senate majority leader Schumer is saying enough and is forcing a vote. He has telegraphed this move for some time now so there cannot be any who could credibly say they were caught unawares.
     President Biden has been firm in his call to get this done and no amount of excuses from republicans will prevail with him. So we will know shortly if the republican party really wants a bipartisan infrastructure bill or not. My best guess is that they will find a way to support the vote on Wednesday to get to the 60 vote threshold that is needed to move the bill along. Although that is wishful thinking on my part. The reason is that although republicans would have real legislation to tout back home to their constituents, they seem to be more committed to gumming up any works that democrats deem worthy.
     If the republican party does not support their own effort at bipartisanship then the hard infrastructure package they are currently working on will be folded into the social infrastructure plan democrats are also fast tracking to coincide with the bipartisan deal. The difference between the two approaches is that republicans would have some control over the hard infrastructure plan but not if they don't vote for it on Wednesday. Either way infrastructure legislation will be passed and if republicans are not to be viewed as complete fools they will vote yes on Wednesday. This is a risky move by Schumer but it is the correct move to get republicans off their asses and actually vote for something we Americans absolutely need!