Pelosi Leaves Room to Delay Infrastructure Vote

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We ran the numbers: There are 2332 news articles covering this topic. 47% (1102) are left leaning, 31% (719) are center, and 22% (511) are right leaning.

Pelosi said she still intends to stage the infrastructure vote on Thursday, but also acknowledged her power as Speaker to delay it. While left-leaning articles highlight that business groups and some Senate Republicans have mounted an all-out drive to secure G.O.P. votes for a bipartisan infrastructure bill, right-leaning articles highlight that Pelosi is under pressure from a faction of House liberals to postpone a vote on the infrastructure measure.

 A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that business groups and some Senate Republicans have mounted an all-out drive to secure G.O.P. votes for a bipartisan infrastructure bill. House Republican leaders are leaning on their members to reject the $1 trillion infrastructure bill by disparaging its contents. 

The Hill published a centrist article reporting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the stonewalling by Senate centrists has “completely” disrupted the Democrats’ timeline for moving Biden’s domestic agenda. 

A right-leaning article by Washington Examiner highlights that Pelosi is under pressure from a faction of House liberals to postpone a vote on the infrastructure measure. She and other top Democrats are trying to convince their rank and file instead to accept a House-Senate agreement among Democrats.



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