HILL ENERGY BRIEFING: Senate Infrastructure Talks Near Finish Line

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Senators negotiating a $579 billion infrastructure package are aiming to finish negotiations early this week, under pressure from colleagues to salvage an August recess and to allow theSenate to turn to preventing a government shutdown and debt ceiling default in the fall.A pending five-week break scheduled to begin Aug. 9 is motivating the 22-member bipartisan group to end dickering over relatively minor components of their plan after Republicansspurned Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) deadline for action last week.“If it’s not ready for Monday vote, we’re going to lose a couple of weeks on our August recess if we don’t, so it’s got to be ready,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said last week.