you re standing outside of the door of the chamber voting on this. one of 55 republicans who voted against the rule to get us to this point. how do you intend to vote today? well, i am greatly concerned about the fact that the unpaid for elements of this. i ve submitted an amendment that actually there was a hearing on under the rules complete. we have under the american rescue plan democrats moved forward in 2021, a provision of that called the state and local financial recovery funds and it s something that epic, the organization has highlighted and paul winfrey, who was budget director under trump told my staff only a few days ago, there are still $90 billion of the total price tag of all of this is 95. there s $90 billion within that fund that could be utilized and so, we put an amendment forward saying with the $34 trillion gross national debt and what this fund is being used for, it was supposed to be for covid. well, covid emergency ended last year. griff: right.
afghan refugees lacking food and housing. welcome to world news america. in the united nations security council vote, is getting under way at un headquarters in new york. we will bring you some pictures of the security council chamber voting on the proposal to grant palestine full un member status. the proposal to grant palestine full un memberstatus. it the proposal to grant palestine full un member status. it has had non member status since 2012 but cannot vote in proceedings. we will come back to the story with updates as soon as we get there. we will move onto top story today. polish authorities have arrested a man on suspicion of preparing to help the russian military in an alleged assassination plot against ukrainian president, president zelensky. polish prosecutors say authorities launched an investigation after being tipped off by ukrainian intelligence. they claim they have
lacking food and afghan refugees lacking food and housing. welcome to world news america. in the united nations security council vote, is getting under way at un headquarters in new york. we will bring you some pictures of the security council chamber voting on the proposal to grant palestine full un member status. the proposal to grant palestine full un memberstatus. it the proposal to grant palestine full un member status. it has had non member status since 2012 but cannot vote in proceedings. we will come back to the story with updates as soon as we get there. we will move onto top story today. polish authorities have arrested a man on suspicion of preparing to help the russian military in an alleged assassination plot against ukrainian president, president zelensky. polish prosecutors say authorities launched an investigation after being tipped off by ukrainian intelligence. they claim they have
interracial marriage, this week the bill now awaiting president biden s signature. obviously the bill didn t have a plurality of republicans in either chamber voting in favor. still, what do you make of even the limited gop support for the bill? an election year dominated by so-called culture wars. it was a great event. i had the privilege, i was actually presiding over the senate when that vote was taken. had an opportunity to call out the vote, make sure passed the senate, i continued on to the house. but it was wonderful. we weren t able to get republicans court. but if you look at that support versus where the country is. the country has moved well beyond where the republican party is when it comes to enshrining basic fundamental rights for folks in this country. we were able to get some
marathon team in three decades. the closing ceremony will be held tomorrow. good day, everybody, from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports . big news on capitol hill. the senate poised to pass a procedural vote to move forward with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we re going to go to nbc s ali vitali and ask what the heck that means. reporter: it s a good question. there s a lot of buzz words that are thrown around, but effectively what you and i were talking about last hour, which was senators in the chamber voting on a procedural vote to advance to basically 30 hours of debate about this bill that has been pending here in the halls of congress for some weeks now.