Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate with 69 votes, including 19 Republicans (polls, Missouri, Obama)

[Bureaucat]

Here are the Republicans that voted for it:

Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the bipartisan infrastructure deal on Tuesday. They are:
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Susan Collins of Maine
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rob Portman of Ohio
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Roger Wicker of Mississippi

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/polit...ill/index.html

[Kristinas_Cap]

Got their orders from McConnell who is just as establishment as anyone

[Blues4evr]

Originally Posted by Kristinas_Cap

Got their orders from McConnell who is just as establishment as anyone

I can’t argue with that

[BaptistFundie]

Disappointing to see one of my Senators there. Ugh.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Bureaucat

Here are the Republicans that voted for it:

Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the bipartisan infrastructure deal on Tuesday. They are:
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Susan Collins of Maine
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rob Portman of Ohio
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Roger Wicker of Mississippi

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/polit...ill/index.html

Great!

More money transferred from the working poor to the filthy rich.

[Blues4evr]

Originally Posted by Bureaucat

Here are the Republicans that voted for it:

Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the bipartisan infrastructure deal on Tuesday. They are:
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Susan Collins of Maine
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rob Portman of Ohio
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Roger Wicker of Mississippi

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/polit...ill/index.html

Blunt is on his way out, polls here showed that he wouldn’t win another election and isn’t running again. He is a big lobbyist or maybe one of his sons, but he is about himself.

[anononcty]

Seems like some virtue signaling RINO are looking for love. Or trying to buy it anyway.

[WK91]

Explain to me why the 2022 elections mean anything at all.

It’s all theater. Both sides are exactly the same in substance, the only difference is the rhetoric.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by BaptistFundie

Disappointing to see one of my Senators there. Ugh.

Both Obama and Trump tried to get a big fat infrastructure bill passed and failed to gain traction. Trump has been highly critical of this bill and threatened to use his war chest to primary out any Republican who votes for it.

Regardless of Senate vote, every state, red and blue, will have their grubby paw out for a big ole piece of Infrastructure pie.

[BaptistFundie]

Wasn't that supposed to be the point of Obama's "Stimulus" plan? The massive spending plan that didn't stimulate? It was supposed to fix infrastructure.