HILL ENERGY BRIEFING: Schumer to Test Infrastructure Action

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has set up two major tests for himself and fellow Democrats in trying to force action this week on a bipartisan $579 billion infrastructureplan and a separate $3.5 trillion tax and spending proposal.Schumer put the legislative gears in motion by announcing he’ll take a preliminary step Monday that would lead to a first test vote on the infrastructure plan by Wednesday. He set thesame day as a deadline for all Senate Democrats to unite behind a budget blueprint that would carry out the bulk of Biden’s economic and social agenda later this year.But there’s no firm deal on either plan yet, and it will take weeks -- if not months -- before anything reaches President Joe Biden’s desk.