I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, August 9th.

You know, the U.S. Senate worked over the weekend. They don't usually work weekends any time of year, never mind in August. And they were

happy to record a bipartisan vote in favor of moving forward on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

It got close to 70 votes in the 50-50 chamber and therefore more than the 60 votes needed to

avoid a filibuster.

There is still negotiating to be done on details of the bill in the Senate.

It could still break down over details of what's in and what's out,

but it's expected that they'll work enough of that through

and pass the bill in the next day or so.

But the bill may actually face a tougher time, even though it comes from the White

House and from Democrats in general, tougher time in the House where many Republicans will

probably vote no, and some progressive Democrats might too. Here's what New York City Congresswoman

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on July 12th.

I believe that the Progressive Caucus is rather united in the fact that we will not support

bipartisan legislation without a reconciliation bill and one that takes bold and large action

on climate, drawing down carbon emissions, but also

job creation and increasing equity and resilience for impacted communities, particularly

frontline communities.

And so we've made that very clear and that a bipartisan agreement will not pass unless we have a reconciliation

bill that also passes. And so that is where we've drawn a strong line. And I believe that Speaker

Pelosi, the White House and majority leader, Chuck Schumer, have taken that threat quite seriously.

They know that we fully intend on acting out on that if a

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