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Re:American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open pos... by ecshafer on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:47PM (#36937680)
> Between the three big pieces of legislation passed in President Biden’s first two years — *the Bipartisan* Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act — *the Democrats* are trying to fundamentally reshape American industrial policy.

Interesting editorializing.

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Re:American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open pos... by gruez on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:54PM (#36937738)
>the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act — the Democrats are trying to fundamentally reshape American industrial policy.

I guess it's technically "bipartisan" in the sense that they got some republicans to vote for it, but if you look at the actual votes[1] it's clearly being carried by democrats. Given that, I don't think the claim of "the Democrats are trying to fundamentally reshape American industrial policy" is misleading or "interesting editorializing" (whatever that means).

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684...

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Re:American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open pos... by lapcat on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:12PM (#36937821)
Well, it was somewhat more bipartisan in the Senate, where 19 of the 69 votes were Republicans. Who knows what the outcome would have been, though, if Democrats didn't already have 50 votes and the tiebreak. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

In the House, it was only 8 Republicans out of 228 votes. https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021370

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Re:American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open pos... by aschearer on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:29PM (#36938190)
Care to explain why you think the Republicans deserve equal credit? Or what exactly is the problem?
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Re:American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open pos... by ecshafer on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:05AM (#36943723)
Bipartisan means its not partisan, and supported by both sides. Saying Democrats are doing it is partisan. Its contradictory.
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Re:American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open pos... by aschearer on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:33PM (#36948378)
Then you would agree that two of the three pieces of legisliation were _not_ bipartisan, and that they should be attributed to the Democrats, correct? So your issue is just that they included the third piece of legislation in the account?
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