Senate eyes taking up bipartisan infrastructure deal as soon as July 19

The Hill

BY JORDAIN CARNEY July 7, 2021

A bipartisan infrastructure agreement could be brought up on the Senate floor as soon as the week of July 19, a source confirmed to The Hill.

The bipartisan group of negotiators is still working to turn their $1.2-trillion, eight-year framework into legislation. But the source said that the Senate "could move to" the bipartisan deal as soon as the week of July 19 "as part of the two track strategy to move both the budget resolution and [bipartisan] bill through the Senate in the upcoming work period."

The Senate is in the middle of the two-week July 4 recess, though senators have been holding a flurry of calls both amongst themselves and with the White House as they try to lock down text of the bipartisan agreement that a core group of Senate negotiators and President Biden announced at the White House late last month.

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