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Help them lift the debt ceiling in a bipartisan way. something i should note that's been done over the last few years. then when you move through the month, you have october 31st. now, that's when those funding for the key highway programs, the surface transportation extension that the house and the senate just passed as early as today, that's when that will lapse. so they essentially have 30 days to figure all of these items out because speaker pelosi outlined in her "dear colleague" this morning, we got to pass the bipartisan bill by october 31st because the surface transportation programs a...

Congressman, thank you for taking time on a saturday. obviously what you're seeing on the senate very important to prevent construction workers from losing their jobs, from highway programs from being suspended. what is your overall reaction to what we've seen here in just the last 48 hours after tumultuous week? >> thanks for having me on. the senate's vote is going to give us another 30 days of negotiates window for us to deliver the president's agenda. we are going to build back from the bottom up and the middle out. we are going to deliver both bills and it's going to be an important way t...

Congresswoman pramila jayapals the progressive caucus chair. and she wanted this vote to be paused until the senators can share their top line for this economic bill that they want to pass that would expand the nation's social safety net. things like combatting climate change. paid family and medical leave. expanding the child tax credit. these are priorities for the progressives. but house speaker nancy pelosi ultimately failed to please both sides of these groups yesterday. and as a result, there was no vote. and the deadline was yesterday because there is some funding for highway programs t...

Date, was that a mistake? >> no. we could agree to that because in the bill all the reauthorization for highway programs and the rest of that. it's our best gres interest served by passing this bill today. okay. okay. what have you got? >> reporter: thank you. >> don't take blue, any mistake for the dodgers. okay? >> reporter: dodger blue. >> no. >> reporter: will you talk about these concerns? and i know they're going to ask about senator manchin, but when senator sanders says they'll blow up the bill. what do you say those left of the caucus and the moderate centrists in your caucus who both...

Highway programs and the rest of that. our best interest is served by passing this bill today. okay. okay. what have you got? don't take blue as a mistake for the dodgers. okay? no. >> when you talk about the concerns with senator manchin and others, what do you say to the left of the caucus and the moderates in your caucus to get them together? >> we're on a path to have something that i can say to my colleagues with integrity and certainty is the path we're on. and in terms of timing and the rest, i wish we had more time. i will say that. in terms of we only found out a