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This is a fact. these are facts. right now, when i went out to silicon valley, they said we're in a situation where if you put more panels on your roof, guess what? when the sun is not shining, you're in trouble, except they have now battery technology you can have batteries in your basement about the size of the width of this podium and about that thick that can keep you going for seven days. so what do we have in this legislation? we have $39 billion to modernize american transit. i remember riding the trolley. i lived tess end of the line, as they say, in greenwich, three blocks, the end of...

Child care centers now. getting those spots open. we're talking about -- >> but senator, we actually -- let me push back. hold on. we did that. the american rescue plan had $39 billion for child care centers and all that money hasn't gone out yet and that is just in the immediate. and we know we have a child care crisis right now. so how can you say we'll get things up and running really quickly when we haven't even seen that with the last big slug of money? >> i hope we learn the lesson from that last big slug of money and that is don't hope that the states will turn around and pass it out. i...

Affordable internet. these are the things that working families need. >> reporter: the plan includes $550 billion in new spending, $110 billion for highways, bridges and repairs. $65 billion to expand broadband internet. and $39 billion on public transit. and the president saying he is keeping his promise of no new taxes on the middle class. >> we will not raise taxes by one cent on people making less than $400,000 a year. >> reporter: in a 50/50 senate, today, vice president kamala harris presiding over that key vote. >> the yays 69, the nays 30, the bill as amended is passed. >> reporter: 19...

Infrastructure bill, you supported a one and a half trillion dollar trump infrastructure bill that actually was very little infrastructure. this is $550 billion of real infrastructure. you are just wrong on that as well. you have to start doing your homework because you flip-flopped where you were a couple of years ago. >> sandra, would you post. >> let steve respond to that. >> i think you would do a great if you would post about the rat down of the spending. there is some money for roads and bridges, so money for airports, but there's. >> and want to be clear, we prepared it for you and i wa...

Said, politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. at least not yesterday, right? >> reporter: exactly, poppy. look, this is a significant step for this bipartisan group that had been working behind the scenes for several months trying to find some consensus to actually move a bipartisan infrastructure bill. look, this bill has $550 billion of new spending over the next five years, $110 billion for roads and bridges, $39 billion for public transit, $25 billion for airport infrastructure and a lot of other spending as well. this is a key accomplishment for those biparti...