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Infrastructure bill that's already been passed in the senate could happen later this week. but considering the way things have played out these past weeks and months, it also could not. joining me to discuss is the chief deputy whip, congressman dan kill i did of michigan. thank you for being in studio. >> thank you very much. . >> the bill isn't final. that means a lot of furious lobbying is going on from people in your party hoping their pet provisions will still end up in the bill. do you think paid family leave or the ability of medicare to negotiate drug prices will end up finally in this...

Knowing they don't have the votes, why are they rushing into having this vote on thursday? because they're staring at a congressional recess in a couple weeks and these republican leaders on capitol hill know if these numbers have to go and face their constituents like they did a month ago when you saw these town hall protests, that this bill is doa after the recess. they're trying to jam it through, fulfilling every criticism they made about obamacare in 2010. rushing it through, lack of bipartisan support, putting in pet provisions to buy off members in upstate new york. the longer it hangs ...

Gop gets an idea for a scandal they'll never let it go. you're still putting in the budget four times that you're not going to front a group that you had disband three years ago? >> you can't be too sure, reverend. in case they come back to life, they're going to make sure they don't get any money in there. it actually shows to the extent to which our government is on autopilot, and for all the house republicans' talk of redoing the way washington works, they're basically just, you know, cutting and pasting the budgets from years past. and those include some of their pet provisions, even if th...

To looking into the fields, the meat packing plants where immigrants illegally are hired, we won't have an illegal immigration system. so it's disingenuous of republicans to put all of the onus on the border and not look at the pull of the business side of it. >> absolutely. congressman, the amendment phase is next. and as you know, we might see a bipartisan bill laden with all manner of the pet provisions. and by pets i mean alligators lining themosts at the border, of course, as represented by herman kane and presumably all of these poison pill amendments may ultimately kill the bill anyway....