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all 50 senate democrats supported the bill with vice president harris casting the tie-breaking vote. the bill will now head to the house to where democrats also hold a razor-in majority. what does this mean for the next steps? let's get right to chad pergram live on capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: arthel, a political high wire act. all 50 democrats sticking together and then leaning on vice president harris to break the tie to pass a touchstone of president biden's legislative agenda. >> the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice presiden...

ron desantis slimming -- punished for something that hasn't even happened. yet can desantis take that page straight out of the authoritarian playbook? all of that and more is coming up, so let's get started. good morning to you on this very busy sunday. i am katie fang. senate democrats are on the brink of a spending bill intended to lower health care costs, tackle climate change and bring down the deficit. here's a live, look right now, at the chamber. floor lawmakers going on more than seven hours now, applauding through a pile of amendments in what is known as vote-a-rama. the mea...

inflation reduction act after a republican amendment in the vote-a-rama past with democrats like kristen sinema, voting in favor of it. this is making the legislative marathon even longer as republicans continue to try to make this process as painful as possible. democrats are painting the eventual expected passage of the bill as a major victory, hailing what is in it for the american people. >> vote after vote after vote we have done this with no sleep 11 hours straight. why? because we know this bill is finally going to do something about climate change. lift the ban on negotiating...

things they care about. we don't have to make things up when the republicans do their big tax bill in 2017, they said it will reduce your taxes to the average middle class person. it was aimed at the rich. we are talking about exactly what this bill does. we don't have to make it up because we are aiming directly at the american people and what they want. so, let me say this. say no to something is easy. it gets mistaken that no, say no, that is tough. there is no strategy or counting to saying no. it's simple, it is easy. legislating is about getting to yes. i've always been a yes p...

umm, so, he didn't have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh... ♪ crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we're unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it's a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn't be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the co...