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Democratic leaders say, enough is enough, take steps to shut down the amendment process, and move to a final vote. republicans have a say in that because they will need 60 votes ultimately to shut down debate and youre hearing from top republican leaders, mitch mcconnell, and senator john thune who just told me they want a robust amendment process, so this could play out for days and it will be a bit of a chess match between the two sides. schumer will have to decide when its time to shut down d...

Out for the colleagues across the aisle for political purposes. >> and joining us is our colleague from politico, and eugene daniels as well, and so i will urge to not say that it is infrastructure bill and say it is infrastructure week, but walk us through what we will see on this bill, and when we could see some votes on this. >> sure. the bill is to be roughly $555 billion, geoff. we are waiting for the final score, and this is a nonpartisan scorekeeper around here who does that vote. and so ...

That while schumer is negotiating it, can he add in this moratorium, really speak to whats happening with house progressives and move something forward. so it adds another lever in the negotiation, but from what we are see at code from america from around the country is we do need to address this, especially because the delta variant is on the rise. >> yeah, we do. david, amanda, thank you both, guys. have a good rest of your day. coming up, what deputies say started as a call of a teen attemp...

Explain to people why this takes a little longer than anyone would want it to. >> reporter: sure. it is a little maddening, as you know. one. senators who was presiding over the floor today, theyve been saying the language would come over the next two hours over the last 24 hours. they said it could come late tonight or even tomorrow morning. thats because every senator wants a little piece of this, to add what they would like and the staffers have been working around the clock to do just. that ...

At that point it could happen tonight, but very likely tomorrow when senators have an opportunity to offer their amendments. mcconnell and schumer will negotiate, decide which ones will get a vote. it will take 60 votes for any of those to pass and it will be hours and hours of debate that will play out in the days ahead. the goal is to try to get the senate out by the end of the week. well see if that passage happens. but it has to go then to the house and, as you know, this is tied to a simila...

Until we get all the investments in. alicia: that sounds like a much bigger hurdle than just a hurdle. >> it does and senator schumer has said as soon as the bipartisan infrastructure bill is passed in the senate that he plans to turn to the reconciliation bill, that would only, as we are talking about earlier the parliamentarian and the specific measures that will go through the senate with the democratic majority in the vote from vice president harris. but if people like representative ocasio-...

Heard from congresswoman chu and aoc, it doesnt appear, it doesnt sound like there would be sufficient democratic votes in the house to pass just the bipartisan bill without the assurance of a reconciliation measure that contains the broad swath of biden and progressive priorities. heres the decision nancy pelosi has to make. the bipartisan bill coming out of the senate might actually pick up 20 or 30 republican votes as well. theres a question if kevin mccarthy would whip against it or would le...

The little bill and the big bill and schumer said theyre trying to get both bills done before the august recess. thats in nine days. >> thats an awfully ambitious goal. you know, look, what i will say is that just the fact that we saw this initial hurdle cleared for the bipartisan bill to me was a big step. you know, i cover president biden and the white house and looking at how much that president has pushed for bipartisanship, to me, it seems like there was some vindication in what he was show...

Mass transit which received about $70 million in pandemic relief. only about $20 million has been spent. congress will dole out another $90 billion over the next five years so joe biden can ride a train. sounds like in many ways we are being fleeced, what the republicans get out of it? "the washington post" reporting g.o.p. negotiators are finding out about something really disturbing that senator schumer is doing. for nearly two weeks he had promised to use their deal he had been working on, bo...

You want to hear poor and low-wealth impacted people of every race, creed, and color, come to this rally. come to this rally and make washington hear us and say, mr. president, you must act and act now. get in the room. make those democrats come together. and pass these things, now. we need action from the president and senator schumer and the democratic caucus. >> congressman orourke, you -- youve heard, of course, that the senate -- you talked about this. they are working on a narrower bill. a...