The House is due to return to Washington this week to pass the Senate-approved budget resolution, and divisions between Democrats pose a challenge to the fast pace.
The passage of the budget resolution would pave the way for Democrats to approve a $ 3.5 trillion package later this year without Republican votes. The broader bill, which has not yet been drafted, is expected to include spending on areas such as education, childcare, health care and the climate to move forward. President Biden
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But a group of nine moderate House Democrats has threatened to vote against the budget resolution unless the House votes for the first time on the $ 1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill the Senate passed earlier. of this month. Democratic leadership and progressives have said they want to hold on to the approval of the infrastructure measure until the Senate approves the $ 3.5 trillion spending bill.
Republicans are not expected to vote on the budget resolution and Democrats have a narrow majority in the House, leaving little room for error.
Below are five key legislators who should keep in mind that the House is considering the budget resolution.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi: Five lawmakers will have to monitor the House’s key budget vote. Pelosi says the House is working to approve infrastructure bills before Oct. 1. (D-California)
Pelosi has been firm in his stance that the House should vote on the budget resolution before the infrastructure bill. In recent days, she and other members of the Democratic leadership have repeatedly stressed their position in classifying caucus lawmakers.
The president sees the $ 3.5 trillion spending bill that the budget resolution would provide as a key opportunity to adopt many of Democrats’ top priorities, including an extension of the expanded children’s tax credit and the universal pre-K .
“Any delay in approving the budget resolution could threaten our ability to pass this essential legislation through reconciliation,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to colleagues last week.
Pelosi has also argued that the speedy passage of the budget resolution will allow the House to have more influence over the process of drafting the democratic-only spending package. By contrast, the bipartisan infrastructure bill was drafted primarily by a group of senators.
In an effort to try to incorporate some moderates with his approach, Pelosi has called for the House to vote this week on a rule that would advance the budget resolution, the infrastructure package and a voting rights bill, though it will be voted on. final approval of the infrastructure measure would not pass until later. Pelosi has highlighted Biden’s support for the rule, but the proposal did not immediately satisfy the nine lawmakers who want a quick vote on infrastructure.
In a letter to colleagues on Saturday, Pelosi said he wants both the infrastructure bill and the all-Democrat bill enacted on Oct. 1.
Although Pelosi is a skilled politician who has successfully garnered votes for key agenda items in the past, it remains to be seen whether he will be able to get moderate enough to vote on the budget resolution without a prior vote on the bill. ‘infrastructures.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer
Joshua (Josh) Gottheimer Five lawmakers must be on the lookout for the key vote in the House budget. Pelosi says the House is working to approve infrastructure bills before Oct. 1. (DN.J.)
Gottheimer has been the leader of the group of moderates pushing for an immediate vote on infrastructure.
The New Jersey Democrat, who is co-chair of the bipartisan Caucus of Problem Solvers and a member of the Blue Dog Coalition of Centrist Democrats, argues that a quick vote on the infrastructure bill would show that Congress is capable of addressing challenges of the bipartisan grassroots nation.
A vote on infrastructure “would show the great momentum the country needs, that we could govern together,” Gottheimer he told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” last week.
Gottheimer has also been demanding the support of business and labor groups for the infrastructure bill.
But it will be a strong lift for Gottheimer to persuade the leadership to schedule a vote on approving the infrastructure bill this week.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
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Jayapal is the chairman of the Progressive Congress (CPC), which strongly supports the vote on the budget resolution before the infrastructure bill.
The CPC he said earlier this month that, after polling the 96 members, the majority said it would commit to withholding the “yes” vote on the infrastructure bill until the Senate approves the only democratic spending bill.
Jayapal and other progressives consider the $ 1 trillion infrastructure package to be small-scale compared to the eventual $ 3.5 trillion measure. They want Congress to address a number of priorities that the budget resolution is designed to facilitate, including funding to address climate change, a Medicare expansion, investments in affordable housing, and path to citizenship for millions of people.
“The American people handed us the House, Senate and White House not only to improve roads and bridges, but also to improve their daily lives,” Jayapal said in a statement after the resolution was passed. budget in the Senate. “We can do that by using that moment of government to ensure that President Biden’s full agenda is met.”
If Democratic leaders gave the moderates an immediate vote on the infrastructure bill, they would risk angering the progressives and losing many of their votes to the bipartisan measure, which would gain the support of some House Republicans.
Rep. Peter DeFazio
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DeFazio, who is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has criticized the Senate-approved infrastructure bill, arguing that it is not enough to combat climate change. He now expects his climate priorities to be included in the exclusively Democratic package.
In a letter to colleagues last week, DeFazio urged them to swiftly pass the budget resolution to ensure that members of the House have more involvement in drafting the democratic-only spending bill.
“Giving a voice to the House requires all members of the Democratic House Caucus to work together and take the first step: enacting a budget resolution so we can present a House Conciliation Bill that elevates House priorities.” wrote DeFazio.
The DeFazio committee is one of several House panels that will be involved in drafting the $ 3.5 trillion measure. He, other relevant committee chairs and Democratic House leaders participated Thursday in a virtual meeting with Biden to discuss eventual legislation.
Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)
If Democratic leaders want to achieve their goal of passing the budget resolution this week and wait for the infrastructure bill to pass, they will have to get some of the nine moderates who have threatened to vote against the budget resolution to vote. finally the measure.
One of the lawmakers to see how Pelosi tries to get votes is Cuellar, a Texas Democrat who is among the most moderate House Democrats, but who is also close to Pelosi. Next year he faces a primary challenge at the hands of Jessica Cisneros, a progressive who lost to him in the 2020 Democratic primary by just over 3 percentage points.
In addition to Gottheimer and Cuellar, the other moderate Democrats who have been pushing to vote on the infrastructure bill before voting on the budget resolution are representatives. Filemon Vela
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Edward (Ed) Case MORE (Hawaii), Kurt Schrader
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The nine moderate Democrats released a press release on Friday in which each provided statements reiterating its support for a quick vote on the infrastructure bill.
“It is rational that we move this bill forward now,” Cuellar said in his statement. “Americans are ready to go back to work and we must seize this historic opportunity to pass single-generation infrastructure legislation, a rare example of broad-based bipartisan bicameral support.”