the meeting comes as house speaker nancy pelosi sets october 31st as another new deadline for the house to pass the smaller, $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. that is the one that focuses on bridges and roads and such. that deadline also marks when the 30-day reauthorization of the federal highway program expires. pelosi wrote in a letter to her colleagues that the bipartisan framework must be passed well before that date to save people's jobs. the decision to delay the vote has already angered moderates in the party who wanted to pass the bipartisan bill on its own last week. however, progressives, which is a much bigger group of democrats all but ensured the vote would fail unless the $3.5 trillion package democrats are seeking to push through budget reconciliation could be passed at the same time. one of the so-called moderate democratic holdouts arizona senator kyrsten sinema issued