The Senate could be voting as soon as this weekend on that massive infrastructure bill

that you've been hearing a lot about. It's 2,700 pages, about $1 trillion in spending for things like

roads and bridges, broadband, the power grid. You know, I tell folks, I know that bipartisanship

sounds outdated to many pundits. The deal on this bill came together after months of negotiations

led by a bipartisan group of senators. The difficult work of crossing party lines,

collaborating, compromising, that's what's expected at home in Arizona.

Arizona's Kiersten Sinema, a Democrat, helps steer the bipartisan effort, and she spoke with

NPR earlier this week. Folks are openly debating the policies in our bill. We've been moving forward

on amendments, and so far we've been thrilled to receive the support of two-thirds of the Senate,

which is shown broad and bipartisan support. The thing is, the approach from moderate Democrats

like Sinema and West Virginia's Joe Manchin has been criticized by some of their more progressive

colleagues. I want to be clear that the investments in the bipartisan bill are not all,

you know, candy land. Speaking to CNN, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that

some parts of the bill really concern her, like language about toll roads and leasing public

infrastructure to private companies. Bypartison doesn't always mean that it's in the interest of

the public good. It's easy to launch criticisms and political attacks. As folks know, I don't do that.

We asked Kiersten Sinema whether she was concerned at all that bipartisan concessions made for this

infrastructure bill could risk Democrats losing seats in Congress. What I'm worried about is

getting stuff done. I guess what I would say is the proof is in the pudding. If you do the work

and deliver results for the people that you represent, they'll continue to send you back to do that

job. Consider this a massive infrastructure bill full of compromises could soon pass in the Senate.

We'll look at what was left out and why the Biden administration still frames it as a clear win.

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