Please verify your request* Advertisement Step One is complete. The Senate voted 67-32 Wednesday night to open debate on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, with 17 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to advance the package. The vote puts the Senate on track to pass the bill by next week, potentially giving President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers on a path to secure the bipartisan achievement they’ve pursued through weeks of up-and-down negotiations that at times seemed on the verge of collapse. “In the end, the unique dynamics of the group, both personally and politically, helped make it happen,” Punchbowl News says, noting that the band of senators that hammered out the deal had shown a willingness to buck their own parties and work across the aisle. “It happened from the center out. In other words, at a time when Washington seems broken, this group of members behind me came together, along with others, and decided we were going to do something great for our country,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), the lead Republican negotiator, said at a celebratory press conference Wednesday night.