It's infrastructure week!

Constipation blockage relieved.  There's been a movement in the bowels of Congress.

House Democrats have passed a $1tn bill to rebuild the nation’s ageing infrastructure after months of delay, delivering Joe Biden a long-awaited legislative victory that he boasted would put the US “on a path to win the economic competition for the 21st century”.

Applause filled the chamber as a bipartisan group of lawmakers gave final passage to the measure late on Friday night, sending it to Biden’s desk. The vote was 228 to 206, with 13 Republicans supporting the bill and six leftwing Democrats opposing it.

  Guardian

I bet Terry McAuliffe is complaining that if they'd only done it a week earlier, he could have won the Virginia governorship.

Unexpected losses in Virginia and elsewhere across the country earlier this week injected a sense of urgency into the deliberations, with Democrats eager to prove they could govern a year after voters gave them control of the White House and Congress.

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In a second vote, held shortly after midnight, the House voted 221-213 to clear a procedural hurdle that paves the way for a final vote on a $1.75tn domestic policy and climate change bill, which they hope to pass before Thanksgiving.

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Under the terms of a truce, brokered by Biden and Democratic leaders, progressives agreed to end their blockade against the infrastructure bill in exchange for a commitment from moderates to support the social policy and climate change package, known as the Build Back Better Act, in a vote later this month if an official estimate of its cost and economic impact are consistent with White House projections.

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The five centrist holdouts in the House agreed to the term to support the bill “as expeditiously as we receive the information” from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), but no later than 15 November. If there is a discrepancy between the cost estimates, the group said they remain committed to resolving them.

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As negotiations dragged into the evening, Biden delayed a trip to his home in Delaware to remain in Washington to continue lobbying lawmakers.

Joe finally goes to work.

"Unexpected losses"?  I expected them.