Senate opens debate on trillion-dollar infrastructure bill after bipartisan group strikes deal Ranking Member Rob Portman, R-OH questions Neera Tanden, director of the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) nominee before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee on her nomination to become the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), during a hearing at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on February 9, 2021. (Photo by Ting Shen / POOL / AFP) (Photo by TING SHEN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) by: Ali Zaslav, Lauren Fox and Alex Rogers, CNN Posted: Jul 28, 2021 / 07:47 PM EST (CNN) — The Senate voted on Wednesday to proceed to a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill after weeks of negotiating, advancing a critical part of President Joe Biden’s agenda in Congress. The vote was 67-32.