congress could disapprove. he could prevail at any time. no more of these hostage taking reckless elements run by republicans. democrats have always avoided them. so this strategy could mean that the debt ceiling goes from being a legislative hostage to being a legislative engine pushing the reconciliation bill forward. and if that happens and we ge rid of the debteiling ridiculous process oe and for all and get both of these bills, reconciltion and the bipartisan infrastructurebill, i will takehat btle of wine sitting behind me to mitch mcconnell. norm teaches me somhing every time he comes on here. thank you for joining us tonight, norm. really appreciate it. thank you. coming up, the man who made sure that every california voter will always from now on receive a ballot in the mail for every
the los angeles tes attributes the high voter turnout to, quote, the pandemic inspired decision to mail a ballot to each of california s 22.3 million voters. that process has now become the law of the land in california. yesterday,california s democratic governor gavin newsom signed into law bill that permanently requires a vote-by-mail ballot be mailed to every active registered voter in the state of california. joining us now is the california democratic assembly member mark berman, chairman of the elections committee. he wrote the law that governo newsom signed yesterda thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. this turnout that you got throw the mail-in process in this last election was a real lesson in voter partipation, record highs. i think it was somewhere aroun 80%. 87% of those ballots were the
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is mcconnell trying to force this into the democrats reconciltion package? you know, look, i think what nority leader mcconnell is trying to do is make this as complicated as possible for the democrats. and like i said, it is not based on anyolicy concern. it is just trying to throw a wrench into the system. it s important to remember, though, right, that the debt limit is about borrowing to cover spending and tax decisions that congress has already made. and if you look back on the four years of the tmp presidency when mitch mcconnell was the senate majority leader trump and mcconnell racked up nearly $8 trillion worth of debt. if you remember that 2017 tax bill that they passed to big corporations and to the wealthy, that is projected by the nonpartisan cpo to generate just by itself nearly a quarter of a