Congress, at least the Senate, returns on Monday; the House will not have any votes scheduled until a week from Monday on July 19. As both chambers have plans to leave DC for the month of August, it should be a busy few weeks.

In the Senate, Leader Schumer has indicated he would like to get an initial vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill in July, the one catch at this point is that the bill doesn't exist. With all leading Senators back in town next week it could be the last opportunity to see if a bipartisan infrastructure bill is really possible. The definition of bipartisan is getting 10 Republicans to vote to stop a filibuster and allow the bill to proceed. During the July 4 break Senate Republican Leader McConnell expressed some skepticism about funding, and again made clear there can be no rollback of the Trump 2017 tax cuts; but he stated that there was a "decent chance" an agreement could be reached on traditional infrastructure.

The White House and Congressional Democratic leaders continue to press ahead with a two-track strategy passing a bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill and a second human infrastructure bill carried exclusively by Democrats in the Budget Reconciliation Bill.

The two-track strategy carries some difficult choices for the House. If ...

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