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Family. a family divided. at issue, the timing of a vote on the already-hammered-out bipartisan bill on so-called hard infrastructure. and the contents and price tag of a larger bill on so-called human infrastructure. childcare, affordable housing, healthcare, and climate change, which would be passed with only democratic support by reconciliation. two sessions today. one for progressives in the house who won't vote for the first without the second. the other, for moderates, some of whom aren't even sure about the second at all. just moments ago, progressive leader congresswoman pramila jayapa...

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Trying to show that bipartisanship and that washington can work. that's important for both parties as they try to get a political message out there ahead of the midterms, and clearly there's reasons for both parties to go along with this bipartisan, quote, unquote, hard infrastructure piece. where it does come back to normal partisan lines though is in what they do next, which is moving on to the budget reconciliation bill, the $3.5 trillion of soft infrastructure or human infrastructure. a lot of the democratic policy priorities that we heard talked about as far back as the presidential campa...

Then that is the amendment process will start. that means that senators could offer potential changes to this bill. but they can't do that until this text is released which is one reason why there is an expectation that the senate is going to be in for at least part of the weekend. which is very rare for the united states senate. it is rare for them to be on a friday let alone a saturday or a sunday. but it speaks to the urgency of the democratic leaders are trying to get this done within about a week's time. get this out of the senate and so they could move on to the larger effort to move for...

>> reporter: well, we could do that. we are also still waiting for the bill text itself, what they'll actually vote on. it is more than 1,000 pages, that's what is ekszxpected at least. this 57-page outline gives a run break down. it would include about $110 billion for roads and bridges, an additional $66 billion for public transit that had been actually one of the sticking points here. you can see money is spreadal across different areas of so-called hard infrastructure, clean water, about $55 billion for that. that was another sticking point that emerged through the course of the talks. thi...