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24 Jun, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Dem leaders have come up with a strategy to effectively pressure both wings of their party to fall in line behind the bipartisan deal and the reconciliation package -- with the hope of sending the bills to President Joe Biden's desk as early as September.
Pelosi said today that the House won't approve the bipartisan deal until the Senate passes the reconciliation bill first. That effectively pressures Manchin and other moderates to fall in line to back reconciliation proposal if they want to see their bipartisan deal become law.
Progressives, meanwhile, will be under pressure to back the bipartisan deal because it is expected to contain key authorizations of spending measures and an extension of transportation programs set to expire by Sept. 30, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A budget resolution must be approved first before Congress can act on the binding reconciliation bill, which cannot be filibustered in the Senate and can be approved on straight party lines.
Roughly, the timeframe could look like this:

July/August: The House and Senate both vote on the budget resolution. Dems say they’ve been told to prepare for the week of August 9 to approve budget resolution. Could change but Senate may vote on bipartisan bill earlier in July
Most of August: Democrats draft the reconciliation bill during the summer recess.

September: The Senate votes to approve reconciliation bill. Then, the House takes up both the reconciliation bill and the bipartisan deal. It's possible reconciliation could slip til October.
Senator at meeting says Biden put “no pressure” on Democrats there to back reconcilation
Elizabeth Warren, who was not at the meeting: “We need assurances from all 50 people in our caucus that we have a deal.”

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25 Jun
After meeting with McCarthy, DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone says he asked the GOP leader to denounce GOP members’ conspiracies about Jan. 6 and the 21 Rs who voted against awarding police with congressional gold medals.

He said that McCarthy would address it privately
“I asked him specifically for a commitment to denounce that publicly. And he said that he would address it at a personal level, with some of those members. But again … as the leader of the House Republican Party, it’s important to hear those denouncements publicly,” Fanone said
On select committee probing Jan. 6, Fanone asked McCarthy "for a commitment not to put obstructionists or the wrong people in that position."
Dunn and Fanone both said that McCarthy "committed to taking it seriously."
Read 7 tweets
23 Jun
Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the key infrastructure negotiators, left a meeting and said: “We have a framework and we are going to the White House tomorrow”

He would not give any more details
Romney and Manchin both say there’s an agreement with the WH officials and 10 senators on infrastructure 

They said it’s fully paid for and offsets the new spending. $1.2 trillion over 8 years

$579B in new spending
Cost is $974B over five years
Asked if there is an agreement on a framework, Warner told @morgan_rimmer and added “we would not be going to the White House tomorrow if there wasn’t one”
Read 6 tweets
23 Jun
McCarthy said of DC police officer Michael Fanone, who was badly hurt on Jan. 6 and has been trying to set up a meeting with him: “I'd gladly meet with him .. we gave him the phone number to the scheduler and said we'd love to meet with you. Unfortunately he hasn't followed up.”
Officer Fanone told me he finally spoke with a scheduler from McCarthy’s office today.
 
Fanone says he attempted to first schedule a meeting with McCarthy more than a month ago — on the day that Rep. Clyde compared the day’s events to a “normal tourist visit.”
But Fanone said the person who answered the initial call last month “was very disrespectful.” Then, the person passed the call off to another aide who gave an email address of the scheduler. He said he didn’t email the scheduler after he was treated rudely by the staff
Read 5 tweets
22 Jun
NEWS: Pelosi just announced to Democrats that she will create a select committee to probe Jan. 6 attack, per two sources familiar
I’m told Pelosi just made this announcement to the Steering and Policy Committee
Pelosi told Democrats the Jan. 6 inquiry will be a “pursuit of truth” investigation, per source who heard her remarks cnn.com/2021/06/22/pol…
Read 5 tweets
15 Jun
Fifteen Republicans have so far voted against a bill to award congressional gold medals for the Capitol Police officers for their valor on Jan. 6
The bill will easily be approved by the House, but the number of GOP NO votes is now up to 17
Twenty-one NO votes. Andy Biggs, who was recorded as a NO, ignored my question on why he opposed bill
Read 7 tweets
8 Jun
Schumer indicates Dems planning to go reconciliation on infrastructure. I asked him if he had confidence in Sinema-Portman talks. He noted they are “pursuing” reconciliation along with bipartisans talks. “That’s not going to be the only answer,” he said of bipartisan effort
Schumer: “We’re pursuing, a 2-path proposal. On the one hand there’s bipartisan negotiations, and those are continuing, the first were between President Biden and Senator Capito with just Republicans. Those seem to be running into a brick wall.”
Schumer: “But a bipartisan group … is trying to put something together that might be closer to what the President needs. And so we’re – that’s good – but that’s not going to be the only answer.”
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