Month: June 2021

Keep This Bill Dead And Buried.  When the bill passed the House quite awhile ago, I thought it was a done deal in the Senate.  Thankfully, it's languished in the…

The 14 Republicans who signed Wednesday’s bipartisan statement in support of the pared-down to nothing infrastructure bill are:

• Sens. Richard Burr, of North Carolina;
• Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana;
• Chris Coons, of Delaware;
• Susan Collins, of Maine;
• Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina;
• Joe Manchin, of West Virginia
• Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska;
• Rob Portman, of Ohio;
• Mitt Romney, of Utah;
• Mike Rounds, of South Dakota;
• Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona
• Thom Tillis, of North Carolina
• Todd Young, of Indiana
• Jerry Moran, of Kansas

Here is the list of Republicans Senators who will vote for the actual bill:

• Chris Coons, of Delaware;

McConnell put the kibosh on the pared-down to nothing infrastructure deal in real time. No matter. Coons rushed to take credit for saving America. All hail BIPARTISANSHIP!!! All hail the SUPER SECRET BIPARTISAN CAUCUS!

Q: You were a part of the larger group of 20 bipartisan senators who have been meeting on this. Tell us your thoughts about the impact and the import about what we just heard from the president and your colleagues at the White House. Sen. Coons: Well, Dana, this is a great day for President Biden, for the determined group of ten Democrats and Republicans who you just heard from – from Kyrsten Sinema and Rob Portman, from Joe Manchin and Susan Collins and others who have been hammering away at this for days and days. And now the work begins to build it out, to make sure that beyond the 21 of us who have publicly been supporting it and urging them along, we get more supporters in both caucuses. Over the next eight years, this represents $1.2 trillion in investment and infrastructure. That really is a big deal. And this framework has $[579] billion in new spending. To get an agreement on that on a bipartisan basis took a lot of very hard work. So I just want to congratulate the folks who were just over at the White House with President Biden. This is a significant accomplishment. Something that should not go unremarked is that the Senate of the United States also just passed in the last hour and a half a bold bipartisan bill on climate change in the agriculture sector. Senator Stabenow and Senator Braun were the leads on this. There are good bipartisan things happening here in the Senate. I do think for us to accomplish most of President Biden’s boldest agenda in the American Jobs Plan and Family Plan, we will still have to proceed by reconciliation – which I support. But as you just heard, a Republican senator from Louisiana celebrated the White House. This package has $47 billion to do climate resiliency work. It is great to hear Democrats and Republicans legislating together around something as urgent as combatting climate change and as significant as creating great high-paying jobs, building American infrastructure for this century.

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What about that Delaware Senate? Fuck Yeah! What about that Network Delaware? What about that Delaware United? What about that PDD? What about that Common Cause? Fuck Yeah! Fuck Yeah! Fuck Yeah! What about that Mom's Demand Action? What about that Highland Bunker? What about that Delaware Call? What about so many others? What about that Activist Democratic Party? Sure...there are some tired old fossils shuffling about, but the new day has dawned and light is streaming in the windows. Fuck Yeah's all around. It's just amazing how far progressives have come in this state since I first attended a Howard Dean meet up in the Newark on a dark night in January of 2004.