ron desantis slimming punished for something that hasn t even happened. yet can desantis take that page straight out of the authoritarian playbook? all of that and more is coming up, so let s get started. good morning to you on this very busy sunday. i am katie fang. senate democrats are on the brink of a spending bill intended to lower health care costs, tackle climate change and bring down the deficit. here s a live, look right now, at the chamber. floor lawmakers going on more than seven hours now, applauding through a pile of amendments in what is known as vote-a-rama. the measure advance on a party line vote of 51 to 50, with vice president kamala harris casting the tie breaking vote, and overcoming unanimous
accurately communicate that legislation. there are winds here. it could take some time for these changes to be implemented. i do agree with bob on this, we re not gonna feel the impacts of this felt tomorrow. in fact, it might take a while to feel the impacts of this bill. that doesn t mean we need to wait in terms of when we start communicating about it. while the impacts might take a while, the intent of each party was made very, very clear with the vote today. the intent of the democratic party, the focus of the democratic party, is providing relief to families we know are feeling pain from inflation. whereas the intent of the republican party, is to ignore. it again, as i said earlier these are not radical proposals that were in this bill today. these are provisions that were supported by republicans,
through this crazy process called vote-a-rama and reconciliation. often something gets knocked down by the parliamentarian that you have to replace at the last minute, or by an unexpected amendment vote, as happen today. i give a lot of credit to leader schumer and his staff who were on the fly, managing this process. into my colleagues. there were folks who didn t get everything they wanted in this bill, me included. i wanted a civilian climate cord very very badly. it s something i worked hard for. but in the end, this package, which does more for climate than anything we ve done in my lifetime, and makes a real difference for prescription drug prices and energy costs, health care costs, it s gonna make a big difference for a majority of americans. i m proud to support this bill today. senator coons, you said on the record, this crazy process. you said it! not me! processwe were all thinking it. that is for darn sure. i will let you get sleep, senator, thank you so much. congratula
changed the world. in a way that you rarely get an opportunity to do that. with the inflation reduction act, this summit democratic majority as achieved with countless others have come to washington promising to do, but ultimately failed to deliver. i m really confident that the inflation reduction act will endure as one of the defining feats of the 21st century. we did it without a single vote to spare. to do something with 50 votes, is raf to do small things with 50 votes as rough, to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes and intransigent republican minority. a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin. wow! and i give such credit to my caucus. they are amazing, they pull
okay everybody, i just want to walk you through what is happening on the senate floor right now. so we just heard from senator schumer there, at the beginning of this final vote now being tallied. it s on the inflation reduction act. as you saw, vice president harris there as well to be the official tiebreak are there in this vote. as you see there, they are now calling role for this final vote on the inflation reduction act after a marathon of work they have done on this thing. the last 24 hours or so, senators really up all night having to deal with this vote-a-rama. now we are seeing the votes being tallied on the senate