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The senate has voted to advance the bipartisan infrastructure bill and bring debate on the substitute amendment to an end. i repeat that democrats are ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. once again, that will require the cooperation of our republican colleagues. i hope they will cooperate so we can move more quickly. otherwise, we'll proceed by the book and finish the bill. >> john, what's our sense of the bipartisanship inside this bipartisan bill? even the vote to replace the shell bill was not along strict party lines. there were a ...

It's what you can debate, if there is nobody objecting to have it sooner, or the can of the vote after the one you are watching right now, which is essentially as you pointed, out the big cloture vote that says let's have a final vote on this bill. >> there's really only been one senator, bill haggerty of tennessee who is considered to be a possible monkey wrench in this if he decides, for some, reason to speak for a longer than an hour or so. it's possible if he drops his objection this can move over pretty fast. >> it can delay but not deny and ultimately it may. >> here's an idea of how chu...

You. well, in about half an hour we will vote on what is called the substitute amendment, which is essentially the entire infrastructure modernization bill. then under our rules, if the opposition wants they can continue to debate for another 30 hours. we hope they won't take up all that time, because after the vote tonight assuming we get the super majority, no changes can be made to the bill. so essentially it will be a done deal in substance, but hopefully we will wrap it up certainly no later than very early tuesday morning. >> there's not a lot of weekends where i have a puppy cam on the ...

Even larger, more progressive bill through reconciliation. that's a special filibuster proof maneuver that requires a simple majority for passage. in other words, without republican support. meanwhile, the senate continues to work on voting rights. the judiciary committee met saturday with a former trump d.o.j. official and a key city in afghanistan just fell to the taliban. that will be of key concern to the senate foreign relations committee where my first guest is a member. joining me now is senator jeff merkley of oregon. senator merkley, thank you for coming back to "the sunday show." >> ...

On this show that i know you certainly work on the weekend. give me a sense of the moment. what's happening in the senate right now? are we moving closer to something that feels like a process here? >> yes, we are. we're going to take a pretty important procedural vote today that pretty much will mean that going forward we will burn 30 hours and the amendments going forward will have to be by unanimous consent. we may be voting on the infrastructure bill. >> when you say unanimous consent, is there anything we should be worried about here? i have heard there are some republicans who would like...