Name:   GoneFishin - Subject:   Buteye Help Me or Martini Help Me Date:   2/13/2018 12:01:03 AM (updated 2/13/2018 12:03:16 AM)

Buteye

My comment regarding your serving in the military was in response to your comment 

 “If "all" Democratic leaders resigned due to sex, there wouldn't be any left. What a blessing that would be!” You seemed to be advocating for one party rule which I found surprising for an ex military man. That's all.

In 2015, Congress finally passed an infrastructure bill that Obama wanted for $305 billion. Obama had proposed $478 billion. During the Obama years, Mitch operated under a policy of not supporting anything Obama proposed. Obama ran up deficits to improve the economy on the theory that once the economy was booming tax revenues would begin to pay down the deb while Trump ran on a platform of reducing the debt not addinng to it.

"Congress scored the first of what could be a series of bipartisan year-end victories late Thursday night (2015)with the final passage of a $305 billion measure to fund roads, bridges, and rail lines.

The five-year infrastructure bill is the longest reauthorization of federal transportation programs that Congress has approved in more than a decade, ending an era of stopgap bills and half-measures that left the Highway Trust Fund nearly broke and frustrated local governments and business groups. President Obama will sign the bill into law, as it fulfills his long-running push for lawmakers to pass an infrastructure bill even though it is significantly less than the $478 billion he sought in his own plan earlier this year.

The Senate approved the highway bill on an 83-16 vote. All but two Democrats—Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper—voted for it. Among the 14 Republican opponents were three of the four presidential candidates serving in the Senate: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul. (Senator Bernie Sanders missed the vote.) The House cleared it, 359-65, earlier on Thursday. It won unanimous support from Democrats and opposition mainly from conservatives."