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Because the mood here does range from democrats who think that if they had acted sooner on these two infrastructure bills, that things could have been different for terry mcauliffe and other democrats in virginia. then there are others who say this emphasizes the need to actually double down on the issues that are still on the negotiating table for that larger social spending package. things like prescription drug prices, which we saw senate democrats come to agreement on last night. but really, i think what this means in terms of not changing anything is we still think, and we heard from spea...

Is. >> but empowering medicare to directly negotiate prices in part b and part d, this deal will directly reduce out of pocket drug spending for millions of patients every time that they visit the pharmacy or doctor and senator sinema has told me she supports this agreement. i think we're there. >> we're starting to get clarity on timing. nancy pelosi believes we should have bill text tonight. schumer says the senate needs next week the scrub the bill. schumer tends to put it on the floor the week of november 15. that's why the house could vote hear this week but it's unclear in the house coul...

What can we expect over the coming days about both of these bills? >> yeah, jon. it sounds like tuesday is going to slip because they are doing some last-minute negotiations around things we thought were previously out of the bill but now may be coming back in, looking at prescription drug pricing. i know there were some people hopeful they might revive paid leave. it doesn't seem like it's going happen. when it comes to thinks like prescription drug pricing, that's not in the text of the bill they released last week, so what's happening now, we e saw the rules committee meet on friday going t...

Tomorrow. what's the new timeline? >> reporter: we have been stretching the meaning of words like soon and imminent because that's the words to hear for weeks now and anna and jake is right. this is a sliding target. we heard over the weekend the vote would come tuesday and then heard from an aide saying the rules committee would not be meeting today because there's issues on the table not written into the thousands of pages of bill text that the rules committee considering on friday when we were leaving and they need to consider it in the rules committee and a sense to have a vote sometime th...

96-member caucus, by the way, not always easy to all vote together. we enthusiastically and unanimously endorsed the framework that the president laid out. and that is a big deal. it was not the full bill text but we endorsed it in principle despite the fact we had things we wish were in there. so that's what we wanted to send him off to europe with because as kaitlan said, the prpt thing is the build back better framework -- build back better act has over half a trillion dollars investment in climate. it finally makes us a country that has universal child care and pre-k. big investments in ho...