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democrats do next could mean everything. joining me congressional reporter alencia johnson and eli stokal. senator coons thinks there s a good chance the bipartisan infrastructure bill gets to the floor this week. does that square with your reporting? the white house is not putting any schedule or time line in place. they basically stepped back and said this is up to the lawmakers to write the bill. there are going to be a lot of ups and downs and we ll see what happens. behind the scenes the senior administration officials who have been closely involved in working with this group of ten lawmakers to write this bill have been on the phone all weekend but they re waiting to see how it shakes out. at this point you get the sense that the most important thing is getting this bill written, keeping that group of ten together and they re not going to worry too much about the
crucial concessions from democrats, specifically revisions to a proposed $50 billion fund. still, final passage is by no means guaranteed and there are still objections regarding a consumer protection agency that would monitor, mortgages, credit cards and other consumer loans. what i don t want is a deal made that is written by the financial industry lobbyists. we ve had enough of that. we ve had fenough of that. i want to listen to what they say but i don t want them writing a bill. i don t want republicans and democrats agreeing to a bill written by them, for them, i want a bill written for you, for the american people. sam stein, what did the three votes by the republicans, then, amount to? what did they get out of it? i don t know, actually. obviously, they wanted to delay the debate, try to get some concessions from democrats.