transportation, pete buttigieg. nice to see you again, mr. secretary. good evening, reverend. thank you for having me on. good to see you. i know that you want to get into what your department is doing on equity and we will. but i have to begin by looking into what happened in pittsburgh just two days ago. a bridge collapsing, injuring ten people, literally hours ahead of president biden s visit to the city to tout the infrastructure framework. as you know, a scene the president talked about with the administration plans to do about our deteriorated public works in pittsburgh. and elsewhere, for our audience who missed it, take listen. they re going to fix them all. not a joke. this will be a gigantic change. 43,000 nationwide. now, i appreciate the president for always being so succinct, but that last part
hard to concentrate because the superbowl is coming on, going to have the half-time show with dr. dre and i m happy to be here. that s our souls in new orleans with you at the super bowl at the essex festival. yes, but before we get, before she tears the place down tonight let s deal with building up the country. so let s get right here to the initial investments with the bipartisan infrastructure framework that are underway. with the white house having cast the b.i.f. as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for america to rebuild materially and modernize for the future, what makes this plan so transformative? well, first of all, it is in fact a once-in-a-generation opportunity. i mean, you and i, and i m a little bit older than you, but you can remember back to the day the last time we did something
halftime show with dr. dre. i m happy to be here. last time i saw her was in new orleans with you at the super bowl. before she tears the place down tonight, let s deal with building up the country. let s get right into no question. the initial investment from the bipartisan infrastructure framework that are underway. with the white house having cast it as a once in a lifetime opportunity for america to rebuild materially and modernize for the future, what makes this plan so transformative? it s a once in a generation opportunity. you and i i m a little older than you. but you can remember back to the day, the last time we did something like this was when president eisenhower was around. the last time there was a major
sbrbl super bowl is coming on and mary j. blige is going to be in the half time show with dr. dre, and i m happy to be here. that s our souls in new orleans with you at the super bowl at the essex festival. at the festival. yes, but before we get, before she tears the place down tonight let s deal with building up the country. so let s get right here to the initial investments with the bipartisan infrastructure framework that are underway. with the white house having cast the b.i.f. as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for america to rebuild materially and modernize for the future, what makes this plan so transformative? well, first of all, it is in fact a once-in-a-generation opportunity. i mean, you and i, and i m a little bit older than you, but you can remember back to the day the last time we did something like this was when president
president s agenda. we passed the american rescue plan and the infrastructure framework and now the house has passed build back better. final leg is the senate. so if we don t get it done, it will be all on the senate. and they will have to take accountability for that. now is the time. i mean, way past time to lower the cost of prescription drugs overall, but lowering the cost of insulin, game changer. lowering the cost of cancer drug, game change. how that impacts our seniors and benefits and improve their quality of life, it is tremendous. hearing now included in medicare packages. transformative. so the bill is not as perfect as we wanted to be, but it as so many good things in it. so now time to get it passed. and you talked about it may