Schumer sets up Wednesday infrastructure showdown
Story Date: 7/20/2021

 

Source: Jordan Carney, THE HILL, 7/19/21


Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved on Monday to tee up a key test vote for a bipartisan infrastructure bill despite warnings from Republicans that they'll block the upper chamber from moving forward. Schumer's maneuvering sets up the test vote for Wednesday. He'll need 60 votes, including the support of at least 10 Republicans, in order to advance a shell bill, into which senators would swap the text of the bipartisan deal once it is finished.

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