good bipartisan bill. and in many respects due to our staffs, relationships and their respect for each other. and i want to mention craig and jason, jean, celia, macy, greg and julie, susan, john and all of the members of our stoof that hasn't been mentioned because i know a heck of this goes into our support day and night for their diligence and brilliance and respect for the process. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 4373 and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. all time for debate has expired. each further amendment printed in part b of house report 117-110 not earlier considered as part of amendments en bloc pursuant to section 7 of house resolution 567 shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read and shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent any time before

this bill asks the s.e.c. to also consider market entry barriers for socially disadvantaged individuals. creating ownership parity to reflect this country's diversity is a worthy goal and this bipartisan effort is a step in identifying rocket entry barriers. to be clear there is so much more that we need to do, mr. speaker, while incredibility steps are critical we must do more. i look forward to working with my colleagues to take additional steps to diverse fit media. i commend representatives long and veasey for their bipartisan work on this legislation. i hope we can now come together in a bipartisan fashion to do the additional work that is needed to finally eliminate the barriers so that the owners of our media outlets begin to look more like the communities that they serve. mr. speaker, i urge all my colleagues to support the media diversity act of 2021. i reserve the balance of my time . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey reserves. gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. latta: thank

one is the election integrity bill. we'll talk about that election integrity bill in detail. i think that anyone that is listening to this will recognize that the strength of any majority or member of that body to bring forth a bill that they believe would be important is important whether it's complete or not. that process would involve each of the members who would be here to offer amendments to that to change it. but members are still allowed to represent their particular constituents with what they do. second, border security. as a result of president biden's decision on january 20 to literally tell federal law enforcement officers that they will not enforce the laws, the border laws, the immigration laws, and the commonsense laws this country has placed a tremendous burden and it is an emergency in texas. over one million illegal immigrants from entered the united states. record numbers of drugs are coming in the united states. and essentially these federal officers that were there to protect the united states of america, not just our sovereignty but to protect people wh

welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. demonstrations breaking out across cities in florida as government cracks down in cuba rounding up hundreds including activists and journalists. americans saying it is time for president biden to support freedom and take action. >> we need president biden's support. we haven't gotten support from the president. so we return to the fight. >> you should listen to the people here, elected officials that are cubeance and know what is best for the people in cuba. let's hear us out and see what we can do. >> i have seen the struggles they face and it is unfair and we want to bring awareness. not necessarily demand change and -- >> dana: phil keating is live in miami with more. >> good morning. there appears to be video from spanish television which shows one of these journalists, live on television, being arrested by cuban authorities. we can't independently authenticate and verify this video but the woman on the top right was doing a zoom or skype interview about sunday's demonstrations wh

send it back to you. >> bill: bill out in denver. we'll watch it tonight big fox game 7:30 eastern time. >> dana: i wouldn't have been surprised if bill saw i saw several illegal immigrants crossing the border. he has a little news to share. today he is in denver as is my mom. she says it has been really hot like a sauna. what do you watch for in the game? >> bill: just fun to watch. the player from japan is amazing. he will start on the mound tonight ohtani in the home run derby last night. we haven't seen a player like this maybe ever. >> dana: i read an article that said ohtani is even better than babe ruth, true or false? >> bill: false. did you see the home run derby last night? >> dana: i did not. >> bill: alonso is a player for the new york mets. he won it two years ago. they didn't have it last year. defended his title. dana, he is knocking this thing out like it was nothing. on and on it went. >> dana: i probably could have caught all those if i was in the outfield. no, i couldn't. i would have to pay attention in order to d

but particularly the interior environment spending bill and the energy water appropriations bill and while the energy appropriation's billpr doesn't include a specific line item to create advance research project agency addressing climate, there are various c funding initiativs in the energy water bill that would address budget request. we can be here for hours and days. >> jennifer, how much do the house bills track the proposal that president biden has put forward? >> yeah, when you have the same party in power in congress as you do in the white house, the spending bills tend to track that budget request pretty closely. it is a bit challenging to do line by line, the budget request and hundreds of pages and the appropriation's bill with hundreds of pages as well. if you look at big initiatives and priorities that the biden administration and democrats in congress want to accomplish, they line up pretty well in terms of funding levels and funding policy. >> and, john, you're a defense expert. republicans are annoyed that president biden has supported only small increase for defense

bill? >> bill: thank you, mike tobin in chicago. julie? >> julie: two of our fox news producers happened to be on the scene as people ducked for cover in our nation's capital, a hail of gunfire sparking chaos on a busy street filled with shops and restaurants. watch. >> [gunfire] >> julie: this video shows two suspect fleeing the scene less than a mile from the white house and 2 miles from the u.s. capitol. police are saying an older model black vehicle was the getaway car. ted williams is a former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor. at this point the suspects remain at large. obviously it was complete chaos. what is scarier, ted, this happened not only on a street filled with bars and restaurants, a busy street, a mile from the white house. obviously the community is outraged as they should be. how outraged are you at these brazen crimes? >> i am certainly outraged that the citizens are in the district of columbia. this happened in broad daylight where these guys got out of the vehicle, shot two men, got back in the vehicle,

vote no on this bill. i yield back. >> the gentlewoman from washington yields back any remainder of time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. >> thank you, madam speaker. this comprehensive bill reflects the hard work of many of my colleagues. i want to take a moment to thank some of the leaders in the house who have made this bill possible. representative dingle has led this bill for several years now, never losing sight of the community she representeds who have been impacted by pfas in their environment and in their water. the bill builds on legislation from representative shawn patrick maloney to require health effects testing on all pfas tell kals. this critical testing forms the basis of required decisions throughout this package. the legislation also sets a moratorium on new pfas until epa has the science it needs to properly evaluate them and will ensure all new pfas are properly reviewed before going forward. this provision was authored and led through the committee process by representat

bill from last congress. that's because there's so many pfas chemicals and the mandates in this bill have no limits on either the federal treasury or the private sector. the bill also will pose a significant burden on epa's time and the lack of an additional resources the epa will have to have to tackle other issues critical to their mission. we all want to have a good solution to address pfas contamination, but this bill falls short. unfortunately, i urge members to join me in opposing this approach. we can do better. i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentlewoman from washington reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. >> our speaker has done so much to protect our environment. >> the speaker of the house is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. thank you for your extraordinary leadership as chair of the energy and commerce committee and i thank him for bringing this important legislation to the floor. i think him for his leadership as chair of the subcommittee jurisdiction, environment

and then with that environment bill and the energy water appropriations bill. if it doesn't include a specific line item and then to address the climate as i was talking to my colleagues yesterday. is there were funding initiative in the energy water bill. and then we can have been there for hours and days. >> how much do the house bills track that proposal that president biden has put forward? >> when you have the same party in power as you do in the white house it can track that budget request closely and hundreds of pages with the appropriations bill that the big priorities of the biden administration that they want to accomplish in the annual government spending bill. >> you are a defense expert and republicans are annoyed we only have a small increase for the defense that doesn't even track inflation. >> it will be a being issue to slow and complicate the debate i would suggest it will be the biggest issue on which the two parties will disagree. depending how you describe defense spending that encompasses all natural defense programs and then the defense d

both bills. both bills look to me like it would make it easier to vote and harder to cheat, which is what every law abiding legal american voter should want. with that, madam chair, i would like to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from texas, mr. fallon. >> the gentleman from texas is recognized. >> i just want to clarify something. i just want to make sure. ms. thompson, was there a meeting held before the special session that took about a half a day that involved republicans and democrats trying to work out this bill? ms. thompson: there was. >> did you attend that meeting? ms. thompson: i did. >> ok. there is a special committee that was appointed to hear this bill, and are you on that committee? chairman and them are -- chairman andy muir talked about the concern that representative collier had about the mail-in ballots you used 20 years ago, your social security number but now you are using your driver's license number. representative you see asked that question. do you remember

bipartisan bills, republican bills. unfortunately there is a concerted effort on behalf of some in the minority to try to stop all of the people's business. and we are going to move forward and get the people's business done. that's what we are doing here today. and we will continue to do that. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from maryland, mr. trone. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. trone: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank chairman mcgovern for yielding. and also for his leadership on the rules committee. equally important his relentless leadership in the house to help those that are unacceptably hungry in america. i rise today as a member of the house appropriations committee to urge support for the rule and the bill which includes important investments to fight our nation's substance use and mental health crisis. and significant funding for the national institute of mental health. the covid pandemic has only worsened our nation's addiction and mental health epidem

this bill in one bill could well spend that in one single legislative package. this is an astounding amount of money. no one has ever spent money in such a large quantity in the history of the world. what's more, this type of legislation has great potential -- in fact, a darn near certainty -- to carry out a reverse robin hood mission. it is perverser with war rob the poor to give to the rich. make no mistake. when we passed spending legislation like this, a small handful of well-equity canned already wealthy people will get rich. they'll get very rich. why? because they see it coming. they know how to benefit from it and how to capitalize on to. but that is a very small group of people and that's a small comfort to those who will be hurt by it. we'll get to them in a minute. that's the first category of people. then you have a second category of people who are well-to-do and maybe they don't capitalize off of it. but they do end up paying a price. they find goods more expensive. but this small category of people consisting of well-off people might not actually

>> bill: good question. mark, thanks for coming in and we'll check in with you again from time to time to see how it's going in st. paul. >> dana: one thing for the police have that been coming on telling the stories and asking us to spread the word. they have to have hopefully some comfort and hope that the white house will finally pay attention. it will be interesting to see if they actually change any of their approaches in policy. >> what josh brought up what's happening in new york with eric adams winning the primary. he stands a good chance of being the next mayor. the people who voted from him. inhabitants of low income, high crime, minority neighborhoods turned out, up 70%. these are democratic strongholds as well. that message is now -- >> dana: president trump made inroads with those communities in 2020 in that election and i would imagine that the republicans think they can figure out a way to peel off some voters. 2022 could be interesting. mass protests erupting against the communist regime in c

bill's had some red wine. he's asleep on the couch, but when he wakes up, we're going to sort this out, and i'm going to tell him i want a divorce. >> melanie described the events that would happen later on as a big fight. >> you and bill had a horrible fight, yes? >> correct. we fell asleep on the couch, woke up early morning hours, and -- it was never a bad time for an argument. i'm talking probably 3:00, 4:00 in the morning. and it starts on the house. i settled for that house. what the hell are you talking about? you settled for that house. it's a $500,000 house. that's not what i wanted. >> melanie says that bill turned around and said, what i really wanted was a house in virginia for cheaper. but you refused to let us do that, and so i have to settle. and she says this turns into a very heated argument. >> from there things became even more physical. >> how physical, in what way? >> he shoved a dryer sheet in my mouth. he had a thing about dryer sheets. >> the story that melanie tells about a fight that

so in the end, that infrastructure bill could be motor fuel for the larger tax increase spending bill. nancy pelosi has said that, she won't consider an infrastructure bill until she gets tax increases and everything done by reconciliation. john: and that reconciliation process, how hard is that the move something for reconciliation? and when you were in congress, were big bills like this moved through the reconciliation process? how often? david: we used a much more regular budget process when i was in congress. most of the time, we would do all 10 or 11 of the spending bills separately. they would pass, be signed or vetoed, you would negotiate between house and senate. for a while then, both sides threw up their hands and had this big omnibus bill. now they are all trying to do it through reconciliation, code word for 50 votes rather than 60. there are rules limiting what you can do and that bill, but they're putting spending into it, which we never used to do. we would do spending separately and reconciliation was for things like social security, medicare and taxes. john: viewers j

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let's talk about the bipartisan bill and the coming reconciliation bill. now that you have got this framework on the bipartisan bill, you have to make some choices when you are negotiating with republicans and democrats. what you take from the american jobs plan, what to leave out. what are the highest priorities from the original american jobs plan that did not make it into the bipartisan bill that you want to see in the reconciliation bill? ms. dunn: the president has been clear he sees this as a dual track process. the items from his jobs plan that did not make it into the bipartisan infrastructure bill are ones he wants in the second bill which will be the bulk of his agenda. he spoke about this at the press conference where they announced the bipartisan agenda, the clean energy tax credits. this is a critical piece of his clean energy, climate proposal package she rolled out a year ago. these are not new issues, they are the ones he ran on and won on in 2020. the housing pieces are also critically important. it is no secret that this country has had a

the bill is not as clean as i would like it to bill, the infrastructure bill, and i think that it is something we could have passed a long time ago, even before the climate crisis was readily known to everyone. nonetheless, i hope that it will pass. i will not put it on the floor until we have the rest of the initiative. host: your take from there. guest: the speaker reiterated her strategy, which she has been talking about for months, which is the bipartisan infrastructure bill is only going to pass with this other bill that contains the rest of it passes alongside it. there is policy and political reasons for this. the policy reason is, you know, there are things in the other bill that democrats really want, and they are afraid that if you pass a bipartisan bill, that sort of saps the willingness. those particularly in the moderate wing of the caucus, to go along with some of these more ambitious, you know, climate and social net, safety net spending, things like that that see it as this is the opportunity to deliver some of these agenda items that they have been talking about for

>> bill: excellent point. he dropped the hands, and then we followed up with him and said this yesterday. >> i had listens to the testimony of the nominees by president biden. these folks are radical. they all believe in critical race theory. ask attorney general garland. i asked him if he thought the department of justice during his committee testimony was inherently racist. he wouldn't answer. >> bill: i want to be clear. we did not expect the answer yesterday. but now we see the context of the first lady and the head of the union, and on and on. >> dana: it might have been a scheduling saying, but now they are enjoying together. stay one there is a principle here where some are arguing that you can go ahead and talk about that at the college level and tn theory that you want to characterize it, but don't do it and kindergarten, which is what some of the unions are pushing. one gentleman who is very much against this is ian wright. he went to toted out with the children's school district overt critical race

every year i've asked my colleagues to look at the bill, study the bill, give me questions on the bill. when colleagues have wanted to shave off crimes because they thought they didn't rise to the level of a serious crime, like a bar fight, we've taken it out. we took out all military crimes because the commander has unique understanding of those crimes. so we have worked so hard for eight years to do this one solution and to imply that it is all new or it's only about this one set of data is so inappropriate and wrong. i yield the floor. mr. sullivan: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: i just want to again compliment my colleague from new york who's worked this issue hard. it's an emotional issue. i think we all have good intentions on this issue. we all want to get to the right answer for men and women in the military as it relates to these crimes and still have a force, as she said, that's the best military fighting force in the world. i think we're going to have a good debate on this tomorrow, and i certainly am committed to continuing to w

we need to support this bill. we need to support an immediate evacuation, and we need to make sure that our friends stood with us that we now stand with them w that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: i now yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. roy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. roy: i thank the speaker. i thank the gentleman from california. i stand here alongside my colleagues in solidarity that we should be standing with the afghanees who stood with our men and women in uniform. there is zero question we should do that. every veteran i represent in the district in texas 21 shares that. as we have heard here on this floor. i am supportive of that underlying principle. however, a self-executing manager's amendment was included that i have serns with. it expands the program to include nonprofits and grantees. private o

we need to support this bill. we need to support an immediate evacuation, and we need to make sure that our friends stood with us that we now stand with them w that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: i now yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. roy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. roy: i thank the speaker. i thank the gentleman from california. i stand here alongside my colleagues in solidarity that we should be standing with the afghanees who stood with our men and women in uniform. there is zero question we should do that. every veteran i represent in the district in texas 21 shares that. as we have heard here on this floor. i am supportive of that underlying principle. however, a self-executing manager's amendment was included that i have serns with. it expands the program to include nonprofits and grantees. private o

it's a draft bill. we'll now go to our colleagues and-- listen to all much -- of them and what can you support. we are going to get something done. >> okay, thank you. >> will this be on the floor? >> thanks. >> senator wyden, a proper comeback when they give you stuff about the nfl team and you point out they all wear nike shoes. >> [inaudible conversations] ♪♪ ♪♪ >> democrats continue to call for a federal voting rights bill to counter new restrictions that are being passed at the state level in republican-controlled legislators.

bill ?n >> so it's an optional part of the budget process that makes changes to one type of federal spending known as mandatory spending. to revenue or to the debt limit. mandatory spending isfederal spending that's handled outside of the annual discretionary appropriations process . often though certainly not always because the amount of spending is determined by something like a formula or eligibility criteria so things like medicare. each budget resolution which is the overall blueprint that kicks off the congressional budget process, each one of those can produce not just reconciliation bills. one that affects only revenue, one that affects only spending and one that affects the definite. it's pretty hard to do major policy change without po touching revenue and spending together so really we're talking about each budget resolution doing to reconciliation bills in practice. as we learn, recently you can kind of unlock additional attempts at the reconciliation process by revising our budg

a thought, bill. people who are vaccinated apparently with the delta variant you can still pass it around. maybe you have to wear a mask. for those people vaccinated one of the reasons that we have the variant is because not all people are vaccinated. a vicious cycle. we can get on top of it. >> bill: one of the reasons why you have the incentive to get the shot you don't want to wear the mask and want to be able to travel. travel has been complicated when you leave the country. i think what's clear is that this administration now is trying to figure out what the best course is because the pandemic has changed for a lot of us now. just like a year ago the trump administration was trying to deal with it the best way they could. they could not escape criticism a year ago. this administration is facing a lot of the same criticism now. what is the way out? maybe time and the vaccine. you can go to our website and we'll show you how to get it. >> dana: get your information. talk to your doctor if you're co

she was shot in the head and just hours earli bill bill, back to you. >> bill: that luster is where we pick up now. stay to that's right. our next guest is it the uncle of the girl who is fighting for her life. charles mckenzie is a community activist in chicago. thank you for joining us now. let's ask. how is she doing today? >> she is doing pretty good. i spoke to her mother a couple of days ago, and i also talked to her yesterday. she is happy and did a good spirit. they took off the breathing machine, so she is breathing on her own. they fed her as well. she's happy. >> dana: we are relieved to hear that. i know you have lived there a long time and love this community and want to see it improve. what do you think is the real root cause of this problem? >> in the community where i am from, it is low economics. no jobs. we don't have basketball courts, we don't have anything. our minors have nothing to do. when you have nothing to do, you find anything to do. if we had something to do to keep these guys motivated and lifted up -- some of the shooting we could to decrease. i'm not goi

>> sandra: you know, it's another moment we got to take in together, bill. >> bill: by the way. my original ipod has an amazing play list. you would love it. >> sandra: you still have it? you have to keep these things. you keep them because they're part of your life and part of the technology. >> sandra: you like the play list, the same play list. >> bill: it is an amazing play list. >> sandra: i love it. >> bill: fox news alert now jeff bezos now he watched it with us. he will hold a news conference within the hour. we'll wait to see the first images inside the cockpit coming up here. we watched it together. it was awesome. we loved it and on we go toward the next venture in space. this was the shot i was talking about. it looks like this came off the universal lot in hollywood the way they shot that and carried -- >> sandra: when your plane takes off 20 minutes to reach 30,000 cruising altitude. i think you and i jotted down the amount of time it took them to reach 30,000 feet. less than a minute? >> bill: pretty close. >> sandra: remarkable. i wonder what that feels like. the

in that sense the biden infrastructure bills and voting rights bills are strategically linked. joe biden clearly believes he cannot come out in full opposition to the current senate rules while trying to hold on to a fragile, bipartisan coalition of senators for his infrastructure bill. but president biden is clearly giving signals about what needs to be done to pass voting rights legislation, including a change in senate rules. so tonight we will consider the biden legislative strategy in sequence beginning with the biden/harris administration's massive, two track infrastructure legislation followed by voting rights and the senate rules. the senate will vote on majority leader chuck schumer's motion to proceed to a bipartisan senate bill on infrastructure on monday. monday's vote requires at least ten republicans to join democrats to reach a 60 vote threshold. here's what the president said he expects on monday. >> i do. here's what i think. what happens is the vote on monday is a motion to be able to proceed to this issue. then they're going to debate the issue of the individ

bill, good morning. >> bill, good morning to you. the administration can claim progress all they want, it is certainly not reflected in border patrol's own numbers are what we are sitting on the ground here. if anything, the reason why they are no longer in custody as they are being handed off to hhs and then flown around the country part of the time. you can see over my shoulder we have yet another group of migrants have showed up to the border gate in del rio. it's probably the third or fourth group that's been here so far this morning. take a look at the video was shot yesterday. we got a ride along with texas dps to really get an aerial look at what's going on here in del rio. within just a minutes of lift off, we were already seeing groups coming across the rio grande and illegally entering the united states. these were family units who were not trying to get away, but we saw at least four or five of these groups is minutes into our flight walking across the rio grande, coming into the united states, and actively walking towards

s. committee and bill cosby is freed from prison after his conviction for sexual assault is overturned. on a legal technicality. the actor was jailed in 2018 for the drugging and violating a woman 17 years ago. as it is the most extreme heat waves the world has seen in many years. record breaking temperatures leaves for said in canada and the northwestern us to experts. it is clear, these are the symptoms of a growing climate emergency. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. china's president, she's in pain, has struck a defiant tone at celebrations, marketing the $100.00 the anniversary of the countries communist party and a major event since he had them. and where she called for the countries were unification with self war taiwan. he also warned that anyone attempting to bully china would quote, get their heads bashed observers. the comment says veiled threats to western countries that have criticized china for its human rights abuses and cracks down in hong kong. she's our long speech followed a military fly over canada police and patriotic songs in honor of the ruling communi

has it got anything to do with what's in this bill? because we don't really know enough about what's in the re focused on? >> well, as i said in my statement, we don't know what's in the bipartisan bill. so we have to see it. we have to make sure we agree with the provisions that are in the bipartisan bill. and we have to make sure that the reconciliation bill is passed before we will vote on a bipartisan deal. this is something we've said for three months. and it's not just progressives. house speaker nancy pelosi has said the same thing. chuck schumer has said the same thing.

this bill would prevent that. this bill will save lives. i plead with my friends on the other side of the aisle, please let's not make this a political pawn. . for the sake of chai, his surviving widow, his family, his colleagues at the marine base in quantico, can we not do the right thing? i can talk a lot about the need for this, mr. speaker. i can talk more about chai and his family. but i rest on the hope and believe that today on this matter we will hear the better angels of our nature and make sure that no more chais have to die because of lack of protocol, lack of plan to protect the work force in the federal workplace. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. keller: i have no further speakers and i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. keller: i do not intend to request a roll call vote on this bill but i am concerned it may be duplicating existing efforts of the federal government. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speak

against the bill. mitch mcconnell himself destroyed that practiced by making sure that all republican -- would always vote no on any procedural votes. and the 21st century, voting yes on the merely procedural vote, almost always means voting yes on the bill itself. this morning, mitch mcconnell finally spoke about his yes vote last night and sounded very much like the old mitch mcconnell, who is ready to vote for this legislation and watch joe biden sign this bill into law. >> yesterday i joined a number of my republican and democratic colleagues, and voted to begin for a consideration of bipartisan compromise legislation for our nation's infrastructure. our country would benefit a whole lot from some targeted investment in the real tangible projects that fit a common sense definition of actual infrastructure. roads, bridges, ports, waterways, excuse me, airports, broadband, bipartisan to finance these kinds of expenditures is going to be big and complex. it is guaranteed to be the kind of legislation

speaker pelosi takes that bill, says thank you. puts it over here. and then waits for the other action to be done on what will probably be the democrats only reconciliation version of the bill. it sounds like chuck schumer thing that he expects your budget resolutions to be ready to be passed before the august recess. so, by the end of july. does that sound right to you? >> right. that's what we're trying to accomplish, because then the legislation that magically implements, as you describe so well in your intro, the legislation actually accomplish is what we're trying to do through really reconciliation would be drafted by the various jurisdiction during the august recess. and then we could take it up in the fall. >> yeah, so then you would come back and say september early october and you'd have that so-called reconciliation bill which would be the final piece of it. then, eventually gets past. at that point through the senate and the house. and you could, the radically, pass at that point if the speaker is holding the bipartisan senate bill. theor

bill. so this essentially is just the beginning of what is likely to be a grueling process taking days and possibly weeks. but the fact that they have now it would appear past this particular step. then now they will proceed to debate. but as to the 2nd part of your question, then about whether it's ever going to get out of congress. what's difficult to see . once again, there's going to be spirit to debate on the contents of this particular bull. it has not been fully written yet, so they're still going to be argument about some of its factors that are included within it. but here that's another issue. and that is that democrats in the house have already passed a $3.00 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. now the senate has given no indication that it is going to take that up. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi says she will not accept this bill into the house until the senate accepts the bill. the house democrats passed early last month. so there are a number of mess up issues before

and so, i think, this bill is a step forward. where you have five democrats and five republicans that argued and fought, for two months. and -- but we, all, had the main goal in mind to get to yes. and then, we threw in the white house and they helped push this to yes, too. and we threw in senator schumer. and now, today, leader mcconnell. and -- and they all wanted to get to yes. we need to continue that philosophy, moving forward. not only through the senate but through the house to get this bill across the finish line. our country needs this, if we're going to maintain our position as the leader -- leading-economic power in this world. and -- and if we don't, shame on us. so, we have got a lot of work to do, ali, you're right. but this is work that can be done. we have done a lot of tough work, getting this to point. and we're willing to roll up our sleeves and continue that tough work going forward. >> 67 votes in the senate, these days, is usually reserved for something like naming a post office. things that are just, nobody

this infrastructure bill and a 3.5 trillion dollars so called budget bill really is much bigger than that, are joined at the hip. the progressives in congress such as nancy pelosi know that, this bill is that it creates a kind of gateway to passing that larger bill, and senator cinema of arizona one of the swing democratic votes has said she won't vote for a 3.5 trillion dollars reconciliation bill, but she says she likes some of the elements in it, raising the question of whether she would vote for the new entitlements and some taxes if the price tag were reduced to say 2.5 trillion dollars. that's the state of play. that's the game that's being played by the democrats now, connecting the infrastructure bill to the larger entitlement bill. >> paul: bill, the portman camp, that observation of sinema saying 3.5 trillion dollars i'm not for that, is proof that the senator's political calculation that this will make such a bill less likely to pass. that was the evidence for his point. is in fact that evidence for his point? >> no, i don't think it is. i think dan interprets that the way

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. >> bill: if you have any theories? >> dana: i haven't even told you at the show is, "america's newsroom." are you ready for this? >> bill: ready. >> dana: new federal guidance urging americans to wear masks and doors prompting no end of criticism and confusion. in the report claims the cdc partially based that decision on a controversial study that was rejected by a peer review. >> bill: it's a figure that one out. we will check and in a moment, william la jeunesse is live in l.a. today. good morning to you as would begin. >> right or wrong or vaccinated or not, the mouse is coming back but nationwide this will be confusing. some states and employers are in and others are not. if you will see that patchwork of rules for which biden support is often ridiculed president trump so this all starts is the cdc issued new guidance that everyone vaccinated or not should wear masks indoors in areas of high transmission meaning back to the tiered system, red, orange and yellow. california fell in line and recommends universal mas

and move it into the democrats-only bill to get done within that bill? >> yeah. well first of all, i hope that the bipartisan deal is not dead. i hope it goes through. there is a lot in there that i do support. you know, i think there is a lot that we agree on in the committee when we talk about hard infrastructure, there is a lot that we agree on. so, i think the american people want to see us reachinga a bipartisan agreement. if they don't we will have to take it up as much as possible in the reconciliation package. this is not really an option for us. we are the richest country in the world. we need to have an enormous investment in infrastructure. it is time for to us play our role at the federal level of trying to create jobs, spur the economy. >> you would get the feeling that infrastructure in sexton is perfect. i don't see the tex rn senators making any attempt to work on this bipartisan plan. >> no they are not, strange give we spent a week in the stone age. far too many texans tying. we have to fix our grid and we need to invest in our infrastr