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Through this crazy process called vote-a-rama and reconciliation. often something gets knocked down by the parliamentarian that you have to replace at the last minute, or by an unexpected amendment vote, as happen today. i give a lot of credit to leader schumer and his staff who were on the fly, managing this process. into my colleagues. there were folks who didn't get everything they wanted in this bill, me included. i wanted a civilian climate cord very very badly. it's something i worked hard for. but in the end, this package, which does more for climate than anything we've done in my lifet...

Changed the world. in a way that you rarely get an opportunity to do that. with the inflation reduction act, this summit democratic majority as achieved with countless others have come to washington promising to do, but ultimately failed to deliver. i'm really confident that the inflation reduction act will endure as one of the defining feats of the 21st century. we did it without a single vote to spare. to do something with 50 votes, is raf to do small things with 50 votes as rough, to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes and intransigent republican minority. a caucus run...

So of hard work on the senate floor for democrats. the passage of all democrats voting in favor of the inflation reduction act. all republicans voting against it, of course, the tie breaking vote was vice president harris. let's bring in liz smith, who is a veteran political consultant, author of a new book, any given tuesday. elizabeth, it's good to talk to you as we're watching this historic moment. senator schumer taking this victory lap, with the passage of this legislation, this monumental legislation. it's been quite a clip for democrats over the last few months or so, the lead up of cou...

Of the reconciliation process, is that the reconciliation process that forces? that >> no, no. the way reconciliation used to work, if you do the best job you could with the bill, you bring out onto the floor, and see what happens. in fact, our first guest tonight. is the joe manchin of 1993. i don't want to go back, but this is the last time we saw the first year of a democratic president, with his major agenda items on the senate floor. and it all coming down to one senator. to craft that 50th for, so al gore could cast the 51st vote, and that senator was mr. carey. he's been there and done ...

That joe biden it seems, and chuck schumer, are ready to just come out in the first week, in january in the senate, and say, okay, this is what we have to, do to get voting rights through, and now it's time to have a vote on a senate rules change, which, it's a complicated process, but that only requires a majority vote. right, lawrence, i think that's right. that certainly the way president biden sounded, on friday. i went down to my hometown of south carolina where he gave a speech. at the ceremony a south carolina state university. he's very strong on voting rights, that was a major theme o...