https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-sweeping-infrastructure-social-spending-bills-finally-get-vote-2021-11-05/
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A request by moderate Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to see a nonpartisan estimate of the cost of President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion social policy and climate-change bill held up a potential vote on the bill on Friday.
The Democratic leadership of Congress wanted to close out a week in which the party suffered embarrassing losses in state elections with a vote on that sweeping legislation and another, approved in a bipartisan Senate vote in August, to invest $1 trillion in rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.
Weeks of bickering between moderate and progressive Democrats have held up the bills. Biden on Friday for the first time publicly called on the House to vote on the bills today.
"I'm asking every House member - member of the House of Representatives – to vote 'yes' on both these bills right now," the Democratic president said.
House floor proceedings ground to a halt on Friday morning, as moderate House Democrats, who have demanded a bill analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi behind closed doors.
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Good on moderate Dems for at least pretending to care about the costs of these bills.
Haven’t heard a whole lot lately about the need to abolish the filibuster …