you might also remember right around that same, time congress held its annual congressional baseball game. republicans and democrats faced off against each other for seven innings, nationals park. during this year s game activists dropped banners over the bleachers that said stuff, like our lives are not a game. past 3.5 tea, as, in 3.5 trillion dollars. which at that point was the price tag for the build back better bill. they also add another one that cut right to the point, that said, democrats don t f this up. the following month, october, we saw members of the disability right group attack. staging a protest outside the hard senators office building. which is where senator manchin, and kyrsten sinema both have offices. they were arrested that day. but by the next day several of those same disability rights activists were already at another, nonviolent direct action outside of the capital.
that very much reminded the baseball players of their tay jobs. the signs read reconciliation first. hold the line. meaning pass the reconciliation bill. pass the president s budget first. hold the line. don t give in. also, there was this one we showed you our lives are not a game. pass 3.5 trillion. that is for the $3.5 trillion build back better plan. the reconciliation bill. president biden s budget bill. there is also one other banner that was perhaps a little less cheery. at the very top of the screen there it said, democrats don t f this up. all of those messages aimed at democrats last night ahead of the pivotal vote or votes there scheduled to take today. the really pivotal one we are waiting for them to take this hour. house speaker nancy pelosi has said she is holding a vote today on the small, bipartisan roads and bridges bill that has already passed the senate.