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The bill, which failed by two votes in the Senate, would have codified the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide and eliminated pro-life laws at every level of government, including -- including health or safety protections.
Emphasis on this. right now, frankly, that was things like the infrastructure plan and still the president's social spending and climate plan which the president says he would like to get done in the next couple of weeks. it's going to be an uphill climb on capitol hill in order to see that happen. that's just the reality of trying to legislate with such thin majorities and splits in the congress, in the house and senate. that's what the house will point you to. i think something else the president just spoke to, katy, that illustrates the struggle and why there is so much attention on things ...
Direct impact on women's rights and women's health, if what happens it looks like is going to happen. >> senator collins, your republican colleague, wants to codify roe v. wade. what impact would that have? >> the idea that we should have a law that protects women's constitutional rights, i support that law. but i can't help but recognize that susan collins supported justice kavanaugh, for example, saying that she felt reassured that he was going to -- that he saw roe as set law, yet there was no indication in his questions or statements earlier this week that that's how he sees this. in fact ...
She's working on a bipartisan manner with a couple of democrats as well as republicans, there's not a lot of details. it has said she opposes the bill that went through the house taking it too far. it doesn't justify roe v. wade. this goes back to something you're talking about all the time. the filibuster. there are not 10 republicans who are supportive of codifying roe v. wade. she's trying to show she wants to be a leader here but it's hard to see how she's going to garner enough support to make whatever she's working on become law. >> we're going to talk more about this effort when we come...
Where we'll have to compromise with the senate and figure out what the senate can do and the senate has no majority and they need the vice president to bring every tie vote and so these votes will be incredibly crucial and the clock is starting to tick. we only have so many legislative days before the end of the fall calendar and they've got to start moving here, but if there's anyone the democrats want in charge of getting this thing done it would be nancy pelosi. >> but eugene robinson, the challenges -- let's not even talk about the foreign policy, and i know you were a foreign editor and f...