michigan about it, all in a few minutes. but i want to start here in alabama, and the most restrictive and punitive abortion bans in the united country. anyone, whether or not they are a medical professional might be sentenced to prison for up to 99 years if they are found to have caused an abortion in this state. people here are also prohibited from helping someone access abortion care, or even giving out information about it. well, doing those things could be considered conspiracy under the states law, which is been in effect since june 24th. that is the day the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. later on in our show, we will explore this further in another installment of the last across america, featuring my conversation with former abortion care providers, clinics have, advocates and a lawmaker who are navigating through the new realities of living in post row alabama. but here is the thing. alabama is not an outlier. it is punitive measures, they are a feature, not a
u.s. history, putting forth more than 300 billion dollars for climate clean energy investment, including a methane reduction program, which rewards farmers and ranchers for reducing methane emissions. environmental justice block grants, a climate bank provision to make investments in clean energy technology, and energy efficiency. an extension of the electric vehicle tax credit. guaranteed wage rates for clean energy jobs, in four billion dollars for drought funding, one of several items of the democratic arizona senator kirsten sinema negotiated into the bill in order to end her hold out for. it on drug pricing, the inflation production act gives medicare the power to negotiate some prices with drug companies for the first time, with the goal of lowering prescription drug costs for seniors. however, a provision would ve kept the price increase for prescription drugs in the commercial market, but penalizing companies, was blocked by the senate parliamentarian. she said it cou
needs of working families. meanwhile, republicans push for amendments in support of cold lines and reducing gas taxes. and even against hiring more irs agents. they are going to be collecting about close to 740 billion dollars in new tax revenue over the next supposedly 5 to 10 years, but most certainly it is not going to help get us through a tight time. certainly it is not the time in which we start adding additional government employees. talking 87,000 more irs employees. i don t think very many american citizens are going to want to see that. the vote-a-rama will continue for at least the next few hours before the bill is expected to pass the senate. it will come up for a final house vote on friday, and president biden is expected to sign it as soon as it passes. biden has left the white house for the first time since testing positive for covid-19. he traveled to for union with first lady jill biden. meanwhile, new warning to donald trump or one of his allies. tru
whelan and brittney griner. president biden preparing to speak to chinese leader xi jinping today amid rising tension was taiwan. how will the surprising deal involving moderate democrat joe manchin impact the economy and the biden presidency? and live during this show, what will the gdp report tell us about a potential recession? former white house aide cassidy hutchinson now cooperating with the justice department s january 6 investigation. who else is talking? and is mike pompeo the next to sit before the january 6th committee? we have new reporting this morning. let s go first, though, to the state department for new developments on the proposed prisoner swap of a convicted russian arms dealer for brittney griner and paul whelan. cnn s kylie atwood broke this story and is at the state department this morning. what movement have you seen? reporter: the biden administration has put this offer on the table for viktor bout, a convicted arms trafficker as part of a
just in the nomination process, essentially they re to get all 50 senate democrats here. we re looking for them to start this whole process in a matter of hours. the big question mark is when exactly will they do that. we don t quite know. they re waiting on a couple of things. you mentioned the senate parliamentarian. they re using a specialized budget process to move forward. they only need democratic senate support to get it through the senate but in order to use that process they have to make sure, they have to go through the parlia parliamentarian to finish. so they re waiting on a few more rulings from her and also waiting from the congressional budget office on how much some of these provisions will cost and how they will affect the deficit. once they have all that have in place, senate democrats can feel comfortable with a motion to proceed, which is essentially the first vote to kick off what is a very long and tedious process to get this across the finish line. once