{"id":38486,"date":"2021-08-06T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38486"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:31:58","slug":"schumer-moves-to-shut-down-debate-on-1t-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38486","title":{"rendered":"Schumer moves to shut down debate on $1T infrastructure bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) is teeing up a Saturday vote to wind down debate on a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill, with senators hoping to\u00a0pass the legislation\u00a0as soon as this\u00a0weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer on Thursday night moved to\u00a0arrange the vote for Saturday, where he\u2019ll need 60 votes to move forward, after a day of behind-the-scenes haggling failed to produce a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we\u2019re very close to an agreement and see no reason why we can\u2019t complete this important bipartisan bill,&#8221;\u00a0Schumer said. &#8220;So I urge both sides to continue working diligently to make it happen.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) is teeing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38487,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38486\/revisions\/38487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}