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Ul after us, if she was not still in scrambling moded to find the votes, we would know exactly what time we could tune in to watch the house pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we don't know be that because she doesn't have this locked down yet. noted, it's some 2,500 pages or whatever it is in this text. not only did the house progressives say they want to see the text and make sure it matches the framework, but we have to ping back to the other side of the capitol now that the text is up. do we get more definitive statements of support from manchin and sinema once they have gone through...

Not legislative text. it's the outline. things have been changing rapidly over the last several days of what's in here, how it's going to be paid for. i think that's where the skepticism comes from on capitol hill. i do think the fact the president gave that speech at all from the white house speaks to the level of urgency with which the white house is viewing this. they delayed his trip to rome by about four hours. he was supposed to leave this morning about 8:00 eastern. they delayed so he could go and make that personal appeal to those house progressives, to those democrats in the house, sa...

Sinema. now that this text is up, it's a very large bill. people will start to go through all of that. that's going to be the next step. again, at 3:00 we are anticipating the rules committee opens up for this. that's the next step for build back better. remember, will that be enough for progressives to then open themselves up to an infrastructure vote? they've tied those two together. >> the text that's up, is that the text that satisfies the progressives who wanted to see the text of a bill to decide if they want to move forward? are we talking one in the same here? >> well, it seems that wa...

Framework as it is, as the progressives have said in our statement, and say, what is in there to celebrate. there is so much in here to celebrate. guess what. we've got more work to do do once we get this passed. >> congresswoman -- >> can i say one other quick thing to make sure your viewers know. it's paid for. >> do you want to tell us how? >> number one, tax compliance. we know as much as $400 to $600 billion a year goes uncollected in income tax. rightfully due income tax. we have to make sure we enforce that and many other things. >> okay. congresswoman madeleine dean, thank you. we know...

Bills, both the larger package to expand the social safety net, to pump hundreds of billions of dollars in efforts to combat climate change and the separate bipartisan infrastructure bill, $1.2 trillion. that passed the senate. it's been awaziting action in te house. the division of strategy, it's unsure if the infrastructure bill can get the votes. steny hoyer wants a vote tomorrow on the infrastructure bill, and he's calling on joe biden to come and talk to house progressives and tell them that they should vote for this bill assuming they can get an agreement, at least an outline of an agree...