The long and winding road to an infrastructure bill: Reporter's notebook

It's been quite a journey on infrastructure, the conclusion of which is still admittedly unclear.

"Senator, what is a goat rodeo?" When you start covering Congress, you don't imagine yourself asking a United States senator these types of questions just outside the hallowed chamber walls at 11 p.m. But that is how Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., described Thursday's late night Senate-wide paralysis when members tried, and ultimately failed, to agree on a path forward to expedite passage of a massive bipartisan infrastructure deal that is a key priority for President Joe Biden. "It's like a dumpster fire with animals," Kennedy said, departing the floor upon learning his colleagues had not, despite hours of bickering, come to an agreement on a set of amendment votes that would have allowed the bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass that night. Ah yes... a dumpster fire with animals. That's how you love to hear the upper chamber described.