HILL ENERGY BRIEFING: Pelosi Regroups on Infrastructure

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) plans to try again today for a vote on bipartisan infrastructure legislation that’s been held up by a battle between moderate and progressive Democratsover President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.Lawmakers will pick up where they left off late last night, when Pelosi sent them home after hours of negotiations failed to produce an agreement in a setback for Biden. Top White Houseofficials had spent the evening shuttling around the Capitol to meet with the warring factions yet fell short of a breakthrough.Progressives are vowing to stall the $550 billion infrastructure bill if the House and Senate don’t first vote on a tax-and-spending package worth as much as $3.5 trillion. That measureforms the bulk of Biden’s agenda and funds a broad expansion of social programs, including child care, elder care and paid family leave.