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Democratic senators, who have all left washington for the christmas recess, hero, senator should be aware, he, said we will in fact consider the build back better act very early in the new year. so that every member of this body, has the opportunity to make their position known, on the senate floor. not just on television. that could mean, that senator schumer will bring it to the senate floor, and let the amendment process decide the final shape of that bill. which is, the traditional way of ha...

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Whitehouse by saying his version of no on television. he is fond of saying as he did yesterday if he cant go home and explain to the people of west virginia that he cannot vote for it, what he did not explain yesterday is why he is opposed to helping west virginians and people in the rest of the country to live above the poverty line with the help of the child tax credit. senate majority leader chuck schumer today in a letter to democratic senators who have all left washington for the christmas ...

If that is the norm you could see it on the other side as well. we need to come in and find a way through this process and frankly i want to point out that we had a 25% increase over 2017. so this early voting does not favor one party other the other. that is hard to convince my republican colleagues. so how do we get it done? i think there is a way that you could do a once a year appropriate amendment process where we actually maintain the filibuster. i thought when i first came here 12 years a...

Push back? >> yeah, you know, right now, the state house is on the floor, and they are going through the amendment process and trying to clean up some of those messes that republicans made. i think the really big issue with whats going on with this map right now is the fact that if you look at the growth in texas, and texas has been perhaps the fastest-growing state in the entire country. we picked up two new congressional seats. again, were growing rapidly, particularly in the urban areas and i...

Referenced there. >> well, the state of play looks good. the senate is working through this amendment process. theres still a lot of procedure to be gotten through but we are within days, possibly within hours of seeing this historic legislation thats going to get us better roads and bridges, better ports and airports, a better future for our economy and creating millions of jobs. were on the cusp of seeing that move through the senate. theres of course other legislation being discussed to,, to ...

Referenced there. >> well, the state of play looks good. the senate is working through this amendment process. theres still a lot of procedure to be gotten through but we are within days, possibly within hours of seeing this historic legislation thats going to get us better roads and bridges, better ports and airports, a better future for our economy and creating millions of jobs. were on the cusp of seeing that move through the senate. theres of course other legislation being discussed to,, to ...

Bill, thank you. eric. eric: arthel, from the border to washington, today could be the day president bidens $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passes. the bipartisan deal inched closer to the final vote in the senate yesterday. talks resumed you few moments ago. you see the senate floor there live up in the corner of your screen. were watching for developments there. all eyes, though, are on a few key republicans who yesterday appeared dug in against the bill. peter doocy live with the latest, in...