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0 us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speakers job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just t...

And they also talked about getting these two pieces of legislation passed. one is that $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan that pelosi says they will vote on on thursday. the other, of course, is the much bigger package that is far from finished but they are hoping to at least get some kind of agreement where they can say, yes, we do have the commitment from all 50 democratic senators that they will vote for this. that is something that house progressives want to see and thats something t...

Pass both pieces of legislation, but the problem is how do they get there and it seems like theres not -- the lack of trust is, of course, between moderates and progressives, but its mostly between the house and the senate, and thats where senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema come in because house progressives, they dont just want a commitment from their house moderates, their colleagues in the house. they need a commitment from people like senator manchin and kyrsten sinema and something that...

Workers on standby to fill any possible staffing voids. meanwhile, a federal judge temporarily blocking a similar mandate for new york city educators, as states begin rolling out pfizer booster shots. and a ballpark tragedy. a mother and her 2-year-old child falling to their deaths before a padres game. what we are learning tonight about how this happened. also tonight, speaker pelosi hinting the critical vote on the senates $1 trillion infrastructure bill could be delayed, amid sharp divisi...

One, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill thats already passed the senate, and then a much larger $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill that theyre attempting to pass through the budget reconc reconciliation process. house progressives have been insistent that theyre not going to vote without the reconciliation package passed into law. the key to all of this might be the senator joe manchin from west virginia who is still signaling that he is not ready to make an agreement on the rec...

Bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill which manchin supports up for a vote as soon as thursday. house progressives have said in the past theyre not going to vote for the bill until the reconciliation package is passed in its totality. i caught up with progressive lawmaker ro khanna earlier today. this is what he said about the status of those negotiations. >> theres got to be an agreement by the holdout senators, by the hold out eight house members, and the agreement has to be simple, were go...

To spend i also asked if hes given the progressives and the house of representatives a commitment that hes going to support this bill at the end of the day he said, no, i dont give a commitment to anyone except the president. i asked if he gave that commitment to the president, a question he did not answer now, this is all happening in the house of representatives at this point this week why is governor manchin so important in these negotiations and why are we still talking about him? its becaus...

He told me he doesnt give a commitment to anyone except for the president, and he said that he has concerns with the bill and how it stands, including creating an entitlement mentality, and so that gives you a lot of indication of where senator manchins head is at he doesnt seem like hes even close to being on board at this moment and these progressives say, look, we need a commitment now we need an ironclad framework. we would prefer a vote on that, the mega bill, before a vote on the bipartisa...

Im here in new jersey, we got hit so hard as other parts of the country did by hurricane ida and in the infrastructure bill is climate resiliency to fight climate change, fix amtrak and invest in our roads, bridges and rails, a ton of us, new york and new jersey, tunnels that are crumbling, broadband. so much in this house torque once in a century package and sitting waiting for our consideration, waiting for us to vote on it since early august. i cant explain to everybody why we have this separ...

Will be a time of intensity," telling her party that they must fund the government, pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, pass a $3.5 trillion spending bill this week. tomorrow is the day house speaker nancy pelosi had promised moderates the house would vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that cleared the senate last month. house progressives insist they will vote no on infrastructure if there isnt first a vote on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. thats a bill that has not been...