Comments on: A more optimistic view of the infrastructure bill passage

By: R2L

R2L — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:08:34 +0000

TRA: Article I Section 7 says the bill shall become law without the president’s signing it 10 days after he/she receives it; unless he/she were to veto it first.
Biden will undoubtedly sign it very soon.

By: TRA

TRA — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:09:11 +0000

Please tell me if my data is wrong, but-

is it true that [this bill, is not a LAW, YET?]

As of Nov. 9, today, I think this infrastructure bill, is still just, a bill. It is not a law.
It won’t become a law unless the president signs it.
In my radio news, they keep talking about the Inf. bill, like it is a law, now.

( Also, since, I believe), Pres. Biden got all of the votes he needs for this bill to pass, + have him sign it into law, about 4-5 days ago.

Since he wants this item to become a law, why hasn’t he signed it to make it a law?

Please tell me what you have heard about about this.

By: deadrody

deadrody — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:34:20 +0000

Indeed. Its not unreasonable to assume that the push, and the mechanism for passing the $3.5 T build back better bill are dead with the signing of the bipartisan bill. There is no reason whatsoever to imagine that Manchin or Sinema would be MORE likely to support the bill they didn’t support after having passed the one they did support.

Not to mention that the Senate bill they planned on using for “reconciliation” has now been passed by the House, and presumably signed by Biden. There is no bill to “reconcile” with the $3.5 Trillion House bill.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:44:15 +0000

The Vogons are going forward with the Hyperspace Bypass?!?! So long, and thanks for all the fish!

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:15:21 +0000

I stand by what I wrote the other day- the “bipartisan” bill now has Republican fingerprints on all the new spending, and now the Democrats can unite and pass the rest of the new spending and the media will call all of it “bipartisan”.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:34:06 +0000

As the Vogons said when the Earth got in the way of their planned Hyperspace Bypass:

“It’ll all have to go.”

By: Bryan Lovely

Bryan Lovely — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:27:30 +0000

Project On Government Oversight? We have met the enemy, and he is us.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:58:04 +0000

Interesting—ironically!—an article about bi-partisan agreement on strengthening the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to provide greater watchdog-type oversight on spending.

The budget for the GAO has been reportedly neglected over the past decades.

(There’s even mention of an organization called POGO—Project On Government Oversight….)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bipartisan-push-seeks-to-revive-hill-oversight-starting-with-budget-boost-for-gao_4092510.html

But will it happen….

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:31:03 +0000

I have a hard time buying the theory, because I haven’t seen evidence of Manchin caving. He certainly had plenty of opportunity prior to the shellacking last Tuesday. Last Tuesday simply bolstered everyone of Manchin’s talking points about why he’s against the massive spending bill.

So why after the shellacking do you give the weakened opponents an easy win?

Let me also point out, while there is a 24 hour news cycle, this is also a weekly news cycle. The Republican cave to the Infrastructure Bill gave the media something to discuss this weekend besides the shellacking. Would one more week have changed Manchin? It certainly would have given the media nothing else to talk about this past weekend but the big L the Democrats had on the ballot box.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:43:27 +0000

Kate,

Just because it’s claimed that 25% goes to infrastructure, doesn’t mean that it actually will. I think 5% is more likely, if that. Lip service doesn’t require more than that. There are so many more important things to which that funny money can be applied. Like ‘reparations’ for illegals. They’ll get around to roads and bridges some day…