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Is final passage. this was already passed in the senate, so this will be sent to president biden's desk for his signature and potentially signed na law later today. but on the social spending package, that certainly has a longer road ahead. if it passes out of the house, it will be sent to the senate, where they expect major changes to be made, so a long track road for that piece of legislation, even out of the house today. >> sunlen, quickly, given it is complicated how this stuff works, is the rules vote in effect the equivalent of passing the measure? >> absolutely, a great note, jim. that ...

Have been stuck in a rut. there are good signs that they're moving somewhere on those bills. but broadly, the economic rebound, that they were banking on, has cooled off a little bit. inflation remains a problem. the pace of new people getting vaccines has exploded to a crawl. 80% of adults have one shot. all of the things that joe biden talked about in the early months are slowing and definitely need something to talk about. >> certainly the manhood of the pandemic will probably be the deciding issue before democrats face voters against in the midterms. thank you, my friend. still ahead, op...

And it is what happened with george floyd and what happens with police departments around the country, systemic racism and on and on and on. and that never really came up. i think most of the jurors know the history of the country and the times that we're living in. they picked the right jury. they were -- they stuck to the facts. they said as soon as it was over, we got in, we did an initial sort of test vote of what happened, and then we went from there, just going through the testimony and the evidence. it was not based on emotion. >> this is a big deal. i think this is a really important i...

Even as another test vote is set up for today, a major vote on new compromised voting rights that was crafted in part to accommodate senator joe manchin's concerns, that vote is not expected to attract the 10 republicans if any republicans in order to pass the senate. and the reality is the white house at this moment has not decided whether they are ready to blow up the filibuster in order to get that done. what they are certainly not willing to do yet is to pressure senator manchin, sinema, the two democrats who are opposed to blowing up the filibuster for voting rights legislation, they are ...

Abandoning hope for a legislative breakthrough but today, when this test vote is happening, the white house is focused on infrastructure. the president is in scranton to deliver a speech there. >> geoff, thank you for having me. this will ultimately come down to whether the 50 democratic members of the senate value the protection of democracy over the strom thurmond filibuster. this is a step towards that ultimate clash. and i think it's an easy call. the protection of democracy is far more important than the protection of a filibuster that has by and large been used historically to block the ...