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Living in infrastructure week this week? is this the week that it happens? >> ryan, democrats are always saying its infrastructure week, but its felt like infrastructure summer and infrastructure fall. the thing is, democrats have set these deadlines to try to reach some sort of deal and theyve been talking for a while about being able to reach some sort of internal compromise, even just a basic framework on this whole package, but they still have a few areas of disagreement that theyre trying t...

Practically all the solutions to diminishing the high cost of housing, from nudges to public options, are present in the housing piece of the reconciliation bill.

Michigan's Summer of Infrastructure Woe has continued into the dog days of August.A wave of storms knocked out power Aug. 10 for about 1 million electric customers, roughly one out of every 10 in the state. Some waited nearly a week for restoration. And then the weather made a return engagement…

Testing Ron Wyden’s willingness to challenge the rich and powerful

Distance themselves from trump completely. theyre willing to disagree with him on this bill but not necessarily distance themselves from him and split from him in totality. and that is where i think his power remains, is that hes still is seen as the leader of the republican party and republican elected officials know that, so their hesitant to completely say im done with this guy, i dont want to hear anything he has to say on any topic. >> eugene, sonam, tia, we still have a lot of infrastructu...

Senator, god forbid, were to pass away tomorrow, the window for action is very small. >> absolutely. there could be some external problem that gets everybody talking about something else, some international crisis or something. they must get this done during infrastructure summer or it may well not happen. so time is of the essence. progressives are right to press as hard as they can. at fdr said to a labor leader, make me, push me. thats important right now. but its also important to remember t...

And everything they talked about is something that we need. we also, john, have to take into account where we are in this country, what our debt structure is. were $28.5 trillion, we cannot continue to add on things that we cant pay for. >> kenya, we talked for a long time, a very long time, joked about infrastructure week. infrastructure week has given way to what im going to call hot infrastructure summer. this is going to take a while to get done. whats going to be the biggest challenge going...