all-electric vehicles but we are about to turn the corner on this and we are going to have to do it without republicans. that s just the bottom line. i hate to say it. we are going to have to do the same thing, by the way, for community college. making it free tuition, for free pre-k. to make sure we have a strong family-leave policy. all of this is going to have to be done, in this bill, without republican support. it s a sad commentary on the contemporary state of the republican party and our country but so be it. we will have to work together. chuck schumer s doing a great job. president biden s doing a great job. i think we can finish it off, this week, and then begin the process of working with the house to put a bill on the desk of president biden. senator, there are reports of some of your so-called moderate-democratic colleagues in the house are worried about the $3.5 trillion price tag on that budget-reconciliation bill. senator kyrsten sinema has also rejected a bill that s
corner. we will have to do it without republicans. that s the bottom line. i hate to say. we will have to do the same thing for community college making it free intuition and free pre-k to make sure we have a strong family leave policy. all of this will have to be done in this building without republican support. it s a sad commentary on the contemporary state of the republican party and our country but so be it, we will have to work together. chuck schumer is doing a great job. president biden is doing a great job. i think we have to finish it off this week, then begin the process of working with the house to put a bill on the desk of president biden. senator, there are reports that some your so-called moderate democratic colleagues in the house are worried about the 3.5 million dollar price tag on the reconciliation bill. senator kissed and sinema is also rejected a bill for that size that you can t build for it. the two bills, the reconciliation bill and the
coming or could be coming down the line from the infrastructure bill that s gonna be done through reconciliation which is much bigger than the bipartisan infrastructure bill being negotiated in the senate now? well i think it s a big deal for families. we have things like big family which, as you know, something i ve been passionate about as a member of congress to take the target lead and we are the only in our countries that doesn t have a paid family leave policy. also, universal pre-k and trying to deal with the costs of childcare and having those out of pocket costs when it comes to childcare and it s been as i said a really tough time for families and it s not just in this last year and it s been for years and years and now before this where families are working harder for less and they re gonna have a hard time saving for their kids college and it s time we have our policies catch up to what is going on in our families and that s with the families plan is trying to do.
equal rights of all the measured areas, denmark, belgium, sweden and latvia, france, and luxembourg. the united states ranked 65th place. the u.s. has no federal paid family leave policy, according to world bank, workplace in equality contributes to $160 trillion loss in earnings worldwide. we don t say tril mulion mucn the show. women can move around on jobs as much as men can. access to capitol over bank accounts. harder when you combine entrepreneurship and access to capitol. that s a place where women don t do well. it is not a legal issue but it
staying. will ripley live there, thank you, will. senator klobuchar s office says a family leave policy has been changed. that policy allowed employees in her office to take up to 12 weeks off for maternity or paternity leave, but once they returned to work, they had to remain on the job at least three times the length of the leave or pay back the money they earned during the leave. now, an aide says the policy was changed once it was brought to the staff s attention and the senator insist it was never implemented. there was something in there from the past that we changed and we never actually enforced it about how you had to work after you came back for a search period of time. the overriding story is we have 12 weeks paid family leave and i think every employer should have that. there is no blanket family leave policy in the senate. each senator s office determines its own policy. and this one was revealed in