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Billion is new spending, and frankly, jonathan, that's a big deal. there is also pieces that we have to do in this bipartisan bill. we can't just move them over into the democrats' only reconciliation bill that we will also have to take up and pass before we can leave for august recess. >> and then a nice segue into what i was going to ask you next, something you're involved in, it is a bill that you are supporting and it is one on emissions tax bill, the plan calls for federal agencies to calculate the environmental cost incurred from complying with any federal state, regional or local law re...

Democrats only, that because of reconciliation it only needs to pass by a simple majority. i get that whole technical lesson because my question to you, congresswoman, is how confident are you that the reconciliation bill will actually pass out of the senate? because even within the democratic caucus, all y'all are not in agreement on the senate side, i mean. >> well, i think absolutely the reconciliation bill will pass. the only reason that we have been, you know, essentially allowing this bipartisan drama to go on for months is because we understand there are a few senators who want to have ...

Civilian climate accord i'm excited about. it is a bold and robust package of climate provisions. there is also, jonathan, important provisions about climate in this bipartisan infrastructure bill. big investments in resiliency, in modernizing our electric grid, and in demonstrating new clean energy technologies. so we're going to make significant progress in combatting climate in both bills this month. >> senator coons, thank you for the clarification on your emissions tax bill. the climate corps being also part of that, but also i think a lot of progressives wonder whether climate issues at ...