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Possible. democrats and president biden cant use the time. they cant get stuff done in this precious 24 months theyve got. thats how this works. democrats want to maximize but they can do in 24 months, republicans want to minimize what can be done in 24 months by wasting as much as that time as they possibly can. 24 months. this time, democrats got 23 months. because for the first month of the new congress republican leader mitch mcconnell wouldnt agree to an organizing resolution to set the rul...

Abou fu>> were at that crucial moment. you have to go hard or go home. america is now talking about voting rights. we need real reform. we need to have a chance. were holding the line here in texas. we walked out that but that would be forever. republicans are silencing voices all over this country. they started in georgia. they silence voices there. they went on to florida. when they were done in arizona, 40,000 ballots. they came off the voting roles. and if we get silence in texas, republican...

Administration folks that we have a democratic supermajority for a while. it lasted for months. democrats are burning precious time, negotiating with republicans who wont vote for anything even a january 6th commission. the condos plan is to run out the clock. its a hustle. we need to move now. yes, it is the role of progressives to push the democratic partys leadership to be more aggressive and more ambitious. thats part of how this is played. in this case the number two democrat in the senate ...

Now that you are going to stay until you do get it done? thats what mcconnell did in 2018 when he didnt even have anything good he was working on. he was just so worried about giving up precious time in power before he potentially lost his slim majority in the senate, which the republicans did lose in the next election, that he said, you know what, theres better things we can do than take august off. right now, the democrats have a slimmer majority than mcconnell did. he had a 51-49 majority. fo...

40,000 latinos, they came off the voting rolls. if we can silenced in texas, republicans will march all over this country until our democracy is destroyed. we will do it for daisy, just like on that video clip. we need to do it now. now is the time. >> when you were in washington -- forgive me if im wrong. i understand the among the people you met with is senator joe manchin, one democrat who is not signed on to support the for the people act. is that true? how did it go? >> yes. i met with sena...

Themselves more time at work to do stuff while they were this precious majority that history says they are likely to lose and conceivably could lose before the next election. whether you are for the democrats decision to spend weeks and months talking to republicans who will never vote for anything no matter how much talking they do, whether you like that strategy or you dont, even if you think the chatting with republican senators is valuable, why wouldnt you give yourselves more time to do tha...

Today. >> everybody should anticipate we will be here as i announced today. what he had announced -- this was 2018, trump was president. republicans were in control of the senate. what he announced is they were cancelling the august recess. they shortened it. they took a single week off instead of the whole month off. they did it because they could. because mitch mcconnell and the republicans had the majority. they wanted to use it to do stuff, even if their summer reading lists were going to be...

They have spent weeks now merging in two months now, negotiating with republicans about what republicans want from an infrastructure bill. even though the leader mitch mcconnell promised ahead of time and in public that there wont be republican senate votes for the infrastructure bill, hed said that out loud in public in advance which should have been a clear thing. he said there will be, and i quote, zero republicans who will vote for the infrastructure bill. but still even though he said that ...

Negotiated, if it isnt negotiated or voted on and passed and on the presidents desk before the august recess this year, their big break to catch up on their summer reading, senator markey says if this thing isnt fast and a dunnville before the august recess, they shouldnt take their august recess. they should just cancel it. and stay at work and get it done. and that would have a practical effect of putting time back on the clock for democrats to use their precious majority to actually do stuff....

A plea to washington. a plea to the united states senate that the senate should pass the for the people act. the federal voting rights act, so states like texas, republicans no longer have the option of stripping voting rights, even further. joining us now is texas state representative trey martinez fischer. he led the walk out of texas house democrats that successfully stalled the last anti voting bill. this week, he another state dems have been on capitol hill meeting with senators and vice pr...