the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill, as amended, is passed. the bill, known as the inflation reduction act, contains the biggest climate investment in u.s. history. it also makes big changes to health care policies. it s headed to the house later this week after enduring more than a year of pain staking debate of more than 15 hours of a vote-a-rama delirium on capitol hill. manu raju is on capitol hill for us. this was once called the build back better agenda for joe biden. he didn t get everything he wanted, but they got a lot of what they initially were going after. how did it get resolved? there was some last-minute drama here. reporter: yeah, this capped more than a year of negotiations within the democratic party. you mentioned the build back better agenda. this is scaled back from this, but still significant in size and scope, dealing with health care, drug prices, climate and energy issues, imposing a new 15% corporate minimum tax that make mor
my freedom to vote act on the lift the filfilibuster. so we are focused this fall to get two new democratic senators. codifying roe v. wade into law, we ll have to take that kind of action. senator amy klobuchar, thank you very much. appreciate your time. more breaking news. the militant group islamic jihad said a gaza cease-fire agreement has been reached. the prime minister has no official comments to make on these reports as of yet. this comes after a weekend of violence after more than 40 people were killed in gaza. we re e bring you the latest, next. we believe there s an innovatoror in all of us. that s why we build technology that makes it possible for every business.
is defending the filfilibuster. she believes it forces compromise and you re saying the framers didn t say that and wrote an op ed published today. how is she wrong? that s right. this is one of the flaws that the framers pointed out. they take on the same argument. hamilton wrote when a first sight might see a remedy is a poison. you might intuitivety think the super majority would promote compromise as cinema says it does. they explained that s not what happens if you give the minority the ability to wheel the veto over the majority, what will happen is the minority will find it impossible to resister the temptation to use that veto. and they re going to use it to make the majority look bad, to gridlock everything that happens in washington. you know, they predicted this.
march. all of these other things are an emergency. one non-emergency issue that our friends on the other side are trying to shoe horn into this discussion doesn t reach that status of emergency until march. this is pure folly. the american people know so. that s why in a recent survey a majority said keeping the government open is a higher priority than shutting down the government over the issue of illegal immigration. that s why headlines all across the america are laying the blame for the shutdown right at the feet of senate democrats and their filfilibuster. the democratic leader could end this today. we can get past this manufactured crisis and get on to a host of serious issues before us that require
republicans really want at this time of deep polarization. and the vote was 11-9 to advance judge gorsuch out of the senate judiciary committee and on to the senate floor. michael, it looks like mitch mcconnell is going to try to invoke the nuclear option. do you believe that he has the support from the republican party to do so, and is it a good idea? yes and yes. i think he s got more than enough support not just from the members of the senate but across the country. i think a lot of conservatives had long expected this. in fact, the drama leading up to this is really michael, i m sorry, i have to interrupt you just like i did to nera. senator grassley is now talking to reporters. we ve heard there is going to be a filfilibuster, and if the democrats will filibuster this person of high quality, there isn t any justice that a republican will put forth that