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My department working with state dmvs to speed the issuing of cdls, the commercial driver's licenses, to get more qualified, safe truckers on the road. there are a lot of steps we're taking to address this in the short-term, but at risk of repeating myself on something i have been talking about and the president has been talking about one year, this is why we need to pass the infrastructure bill. there is $17 billion in the plan for ports alone. we need to deal with the long-term issues that have made us vulnerable to these kinds of bottlenecks when there are demand fluctuations, shocks and di...

Of saying these are lazy black people, lazy people of color, lazy poor people, because we shouldn't help them, because whatever financial situation they're in, whatever struggles they're going to, it's their fault. joe manchin, his take on this, he has a different idea of what critics say this is, but at the end of the day, just that language makes these negotiations harder. so you have president biden in here, some lawmakers calling him the closer, but i can tell you just talking to white house officials, that use of entitlement really complicates the work that president biden has ahead of hi...

>> insisting on a vote on the bipartisan $1.2 trillion proposal first. a starter for house progressives. man chin's concerns from the paid leave and community college and expanded medicare. biden has spoken to both this week and talks remain ongoing as they fix two critical dates consuming democrats. the october 31 expire operation of transportation and the november 2 virginia senate race. >> hope the house will get that to president biden asap. with biden increasingly concerned.

Trillion. sinema voting on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal first. a nonstarter for house progressives. manchin has laid out the package from the scale of free college and medicare and the coal state democrat sharply opposed to many of those climate measures. biden has spoken to both this week, according to officials as talk remain ongoing and the clock tickets to the end of the year, two considering democrats. the october 31st surface transportation fund, an unofficial deadline of sorts and november 2, the virginia governor's race. >> i hope the house will get that to president biden...

Component of his frozen multi-trillion-dollar package. >> both bills are not about left versus right. they're not about moderate versus progressive. >> reporter: facing criticism for not selling that agend abiden using public remarks in connecticut to press the urgency of the moment. >> these views are about competitiveness versus complacency. >> reporter: while privately top advisers have made clear they've grown impatient with the pace of the talks. as two key moderate democrats, joe manchin of west virginia and kyrsten sinema from arizona, remain on the fence. >> my number has been 1.5. >> ...