RELATED: House lawmakers vote yes on Biden's $1T infrastructure billApproval of the bill, which promises to create legions of jobs and improve broadband, water supplies and other public works, sends it to the desk of a president whose approval ratings have dropped and whose nervous party got a cold shoulder from voters in this past week’s off-year elections.Democratic candidates for governor were defeated in Virginia and squeaked through in New Jersey, two blue-leaning states.
Those setbacks made party leaders — and moderates and liberals alike — impatient to produce impactful legislation and demonstrate they know how to govern.