The Parliament approved the bill for reserving one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women after the Rajya Sabha unanimously cleared it on Thursday, however even after being passed by both the houses, the Women’s Reservation Bill needs the President’s nod to become a law
well, alex, it is despicable. just another example of their hateful rhetoric. they language it is outrageous that 32, 33 republicans have supported this. the language in this legislation, it lumps together, this is so dangerous. topics of sexual orientation and gender identity with sexual conduct such as pornography or stripping. it is awful. and we have got to fight against this agenda, going back to why these elections are so important. this is just another example of why we have to vote in november, and we have to vote for those democrats who are not going to allow hateful agenda to move forward. because if this happens, at the federal level, i m on the appropriations committee so you know we are not going to let this bill go through and behave but i think just the debate around this exposes people to so much bitterness and hatred.
bill go through. i heard senator portman, a minute ago, speaking, i think it was last night, you said those projects are really important for the american people and an overwhelming majority want to see these projects happen. i think it s incumbent upon all of us in the senate to work hard through the rest of tonight and the next couple of days and get this bill done. when legislation like this has moved in the senate and the house in the past, and there s never been legislation this big, by infrastructure legislation, the only cabinet secretary you would tend to see around capitol hill pushing it, was the transportation secretary. because of all the highway building, and rail transportation, a lot of transportation issues in the bill. but president biden created a team, including the labor secretary, yourself, and several other members of the cabinet, to push this. how has that helped? how has that coordination, and in your particular case, the
the cbo score came out today. that sometimes is a big event with legislation. sometimes it is kind of what people expected. we ve heard from a couple republicans saying they will now vote against the bill because it is not fully paid for. but those same republicans voted against even discussing the bill so that doesn t sound like you ve lost any votes yet. do you expect this cbo score to cause a problem for the legislation in the senate? i don t think ultimately it will. i think that the investments that are being made in this country through this infrastructure bill will probably make up some of that potentially lost revenue as we move forward here. but i think at the end of the day there s too much at stake for members of both parties to not see this bill go through. i heard senator portman speaking, i think last night you said. those projects are really important for america and the american people at an overwhelming majority want to see these projects happen. i think it is incu
reparations, that he wants to support the clyburn plan. how do you respond to that? how i respond is saying rest in peace to representative john conyers. he was pushing hr-40 since 1989. right. in his lifetime he got to see us as a community get behind that. unfortunately he didn t get to see that bill go through. that bill is reintroduced with tweaks and could use further tweaking. saunders i saw from regular run of the mill black working people put the pressure on him and we were advised that this is something to re-evaluate and look at. within 50 to 60 days to he turned from i don t know and then i ll sign it. all right. to me, to me bigger than simply saying will you give me reparations, i learned in that moment i have an apply to take my word, trust and depend that i m telling them the truth and