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Made to the centrists. i will end with this, congressman peter defazio who is the transportation committee chairman in the house says that the speaker is aggressively working the phones, he says his phone rings at all hours of the night including late at night when he s working on his reconciliation package. he also said this could be speaker pelosi s toughest challenge, tougher than that task a decade ago when she had to get the affordable care act over the finish line. she is in legacy mode now trying to rewrite the safety net, the social contract for potentially generations to come. senator mccaskill, i will give you the last word. the goal was to finish all of this in the fall. could you imagine a scenario in which we are sitting around on christmas eve with one giant policy cliff of trying to finish this at the end of this year much delayed like the aca process was? yeah, it may happen. i mean, you know, this is devolved into one of these typical how long is it going to take, ....

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