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Proceed. take a listen to what he said. >> once they are finished the specific job, the text will be reviewed and then i will immediately offer the text as a bipartisan infrastructure agreement as a substitute agreement making it the base bill as i had promised. as soon as the bipartisan group finalizes the text of the substitute amendment and becomes the base bill, we can start voting on amendments in a bill over this weekend. >> reporter: the bottom line is the senate is racing to vote on the infrastructure package ahead of august recess when all senators are expected to go back to their hom...

In this bill. $550 billion is new spending, 73 billion would rebuild the electrical grid. 66 billion in passenger and freight rail. there's a lot in this bill. i can go into more details but it's a lot of money that would fulfill a lot of priorities for this administration. the problem is chuck schumer says the language is not written yet. that's why they're working through the weekend. they will offer a finalized deal of a substitute amendment. look, he really laid it all out yesterday ahead of the vote to

Problem here, christi and boris, is this text has not been finalized. how can senators vote on a package where the text isn't even written yet? so right now, we're expecting senate majority leader chuck schumer around 11:00 a.m. to brief the floor on what is going on with this text, whether they're done with this legislative text yet. of course, after that, when it's finalized, they can substitute -- he can add it as a substitute amendment as part of this legislation. then other amendments are expected to be voted on af after that. it's a waiting game here at the capitol on this saturday. a ra...

Hill. let's get to our correspondent manu. what happened? >> a fight, actually, at the last minute broke out between republicans and the senate majority leader chuck schumer about what the bill looks like. now, this is the result of the fact that this bill, 1. 2 trillion over eight years has not been formally released yet. there are different versions of the bill that are floating around. even though the senate cast the first procedural vote to move toward, and today is another vote to get into the bill. the legislative language is not even publicly available yet. senators aren't even clear ab...

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