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Pfluger Fly-By: February 16, 2024

The freedom to vote act is about setting standards, minimum standards across the country for how we be access voting and push back against the subversion of democracy. it is designed to mitigate the laws we are watching pass across the country that may be in effect by the time the freedom to vote act passes. the john lewis voting rights advancement act says before new bills can be passed, they have to be pre-cleared. one is designed to nullify bad laws that are passed. john lewis voting rights act is to say before new bad laws can come into effect, you have to go through the justice department...

Both bills, the majority of our members will only vote for the infrastructure bill after the presidents visionary build back better act passes. and congresswoman jayapal joins me now. okay, you and the progressive caucus have been pretty clear on this from day one. and i just want -- i'm not sure people are tracking all this, which is fine. i don't think it matters that much. what matters is the outcome. why though, explain your position right now? there is a bill to pass the senate. first of all, can we talk about the content of that bill and your caucuses views just over the content of it. b...

Taylor greene who made threatening comments, and she's on the same team as congressman mo brooks who told the crowd on january 6th it was a day for patriots to start kicking ass shortly before insurrectionists broke into the capital chanting hang mike pence. kind of weird for democratic lawmakers to have a friendly baseball game with those folks. in addition to that weirdness, the game is happening on the eve of the big house vote for president biden's agenda, the chair of the progressive caucus, congresswoman pramila jayapal saying in a statement, progressives will vote for both bills but a m...

Act -- sorry -- build back better act passes. so, um, look. this is -- this is really crucial because as of now, that is not how this is going. says the speaker of the i mean, you know, anything can happen in the -- in the next 36 hours but that's not how this is going so you have a big decision to make. i know you say you want to vote yes on -- on both. but will you vote no on infrastructure if it comes first? >> i have said that i will vote no on infrastructure until we have a framework and an agreement and a path forward on the rest of the agenda. and i think it's really helpful to use an a...