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Of our environment, its just a remarkable thing to think of all good things that we can do working together for the people. so, a shutdown avoided with hours to spare. but president joe biden�*s problems havent gone away. fellow democrats are struggling to agree on a plan to vote on his trillion—dollar infrastructure proposal for bridges, roads, broadband and electrical vehicles. progressive members of the democrats are refusing to vote for it until a much bigger bill, which would inject $3....

All this. arlette, president biden at camp david today. what is he doing to advance the compromise. >> president biden said he would remain engaged and in contact with top congressional leaders, as its really reaching crunch time for his legislative agenda. just before leaving the white house yesterday, the president had a phone call with house speaker nancy pelosi as well as senate majority leader chuck schumer talking about the bipartisan infrastructure proposal as well as trying to get democr...

Moderates are looking for. he won exactly detail what that was, saying he was negotiating with the lawmakers and not with the press. but so much of the presidents legislative agenda hangs on what happens over the course of the next week. there are also those crucial deadlines when it comes to funding the government. and also a raising of the debt limit which coffee normz -- could have normz consequences. they hope to stay united op the legislative agenda as he hopes for the policy win that democ...

Highway or bridge in your state or that region, your region? are you for doing something about environmental degradation? are you for something that deals with allowing us to provide for moneys to states so that they can, in fact, deal with things like what happened in state where is the major utility lines come down? what to you do to build those back better, to prevent that from happening? and theres -- you all speak to all these folks, so you speak to as many as i do -- i find that theyre goi...

Highway or bridge in your state, in that region. are you for doing something about environmental degradation? are you for something that deals with allowing us to provide for misunderstand to states so that they can, in fact, deal with things like what happened in states where a major utility lines come down. what do you do to build those back better? to prevent that from happening? and as sort of -- theres a -- and you all speak to all of these folks, so you speak to as many as i do. i find tha...

For? are you for taking care of that highway or bridge in your state or your region? are you for doing something about environmental degradation? are you for something that deals with allowing us to provide for monies to states so that they can, in fact, deal with things like what happened in states where the major utility lines come down? what do you do to build those back better to prevent that from happening? there is -- you all speak to all these folks so you speak to as many as i do. i find...

Disasters on these trips but in the case of the white house and their view of this, you cant separate the two. what the president is calling for in his infrastructure proposal would deal with the kind of crisis were seeing with increasing frequency now, craig. >> youre right. we heard president biden do the same thing when he toured the devastation here in the northeast in louisiana drawing that through line with climate change. mr. patterson, give us a sense of how extensive the damage has been...

Infrastructure bill. aides have been working behind the scenes feverishly to draft the details of the bill. congressional committees, white house officials have basically a september 15th deadline to finalize the details. they also have a deadline on the infrastructure proposal. house democrats agreeing to a september 27th deadline, between moderates and speaker nancy pelosi to consider that legislation. in the weeks ahead, pretty much the core. everything the president has laid out for the legi...

Will modernize our roads, our bridges, sewers and drainage systems and power grids and transmission lines to make sure theyre more resilient. >> reporter: the president eluding to his infrastructure proposal, a sweeping economic and social safety net expansion that congress is currently considering. inside both of those proposals, billions of dollars for climate related expenses for resiliency, for infrastructure to rebuild or build in a more substantive way some of the very issues we have seen ...

New government programs and additional stimulus funding congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget reconciliation legislation. we must allow for complete reporting and analysis of the implications, a multitrillion dollar bill will have for this generation and next. i wont support a $3.5 trillion bill or anywhere near that level of additional spending without greater clarity about why congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs. ...