daily lives. where covid-19 won't be a crisis, but something to protect against and a threat. >> reporter: directly addressing price increases now at a four-decade high and overshadowing a robust economic recovery. >> the best thing to tackle high prices is a more productive economy with greater capacity to deliver goods and services to the american people. >> reporter: in a first year with some notable legislative victories, biden speaking just a few hours before senate consideration of a voting rights measure. >> win, lose or draw, we are going to vote. we are going to vote. >> reporter: one doomed to fail amid unified gop opposition. and two democrats opposed to changing senate rules. now biden opening the door to a more scaled-back measure. >> i predict to you we'll get something done on the electoral reform side of it. >> reporter: the voting bill marking the latest in a series of first-term priorities frozen in the senate, including biden's cornerstone $1.75 trillion economic and climate package