out of an indian affairs hearing, i turned off my phone, and i went, is this real? they kept it under wraps really nicely. i wasn t in touch with manchin and schumer pretty much daily, but over the last 48, 72 hours, they got real silent, and i couldn t tell if that was bad news or good news. that is a wild story, actually, that they kept it that close. i have felt, from my own perspective, that you sort of grade these two years of unified democratic control, pass fail, and if you pass climate legislation, that gets on target to the paris emission goals, you pass. and if you don t you fail. it s a failure. like, i truly believe that. and i thought you guys were headed towards failure. all of us, since we all have a stake in this, because we all live on the planet. how what is your grade on this? on this bill? i think it s like an a minus. if i could ve written it myself, it would be twice as big, and there would be other things,
responsibility website where the scorecard is publish. this is my former bob, tom lane. 2017 session he got an a-plus. 2017 he got an a-minus. a scorecard that shows up in republican voter primary mail boxes come primary season. right, right. this is senate, whenever i was still in the house. jonathan sticklund, there you go. top 98. he s no longer a lawmaker? he s the head of the pac that dunn and wilks funded. texas political pac? no question he has the highest rating for that particular year and now he works for them. former representative mike lang, he got campaign money from ferries wilks and his pacs. you were his former campaign manager? yes. and then his chief of staff? correct. before you went to work for
this is the texans for fiscal responsibility website where the scorecard, if you will, is published. this is my former bob, tom lane. 2017 session he got an a-plus. 2017 he got an a-minus. this is a scorecard that s going to show up in primary voter mailboxes come primary season? right. right. this is senate, whenever i was still in the house. jonathan sticklund, there you go. top 98. he s no longer a lawmaker? he s the head of the pac that dunn and wilks funded. defend texas liberty pac? yes, defend texas liberty pac. there is no coincidence he has one of the highest ratings on this website for the entire year. now he works for them. former representative mike lang, he got campaign money from ferris wilks and his pacs. you were his former campaign manager? yes.
there is uncertainty, and when there s uncertainty, people blame their president. i would say he s done very well. his stimulus may have been a bit big, not just his but congress . on the other hand if the stimulus package had not been big in the early part of 2021, a lot of people would be hurting right now. we have a little more inflation than we d like, but it may dissipate. the economy is strong, however. i would give him an a-minus for the economy. all right. his legislative agenda. how do you grade biden when it comes to his agenda? he got some things through with covid relief, with the infrastructure bill. build back better, though, is pretty much on life support now. how would you grade him there? the president has not been a strong leader of his caucus. he made an important decision early on that he would split the infrastructure bill from the build back better bill. the progressive caucus was very unhappy when he did that, and the progressive caucus has never let him forg