inflation reduction act after a republican amendment in the vote-a-rama past with democrats like kristen sinema, voting in favor of it. this is making the legislative marathon even longer as republicans continue to try to make this process as painful as possible. democrats are painting the eventual expected passage of the bill as a major victory, hailing what is in it for the american people. vote after vote after vote we have done this with no sleep 11 hours straight. why? because we know this bill is finally going to do something about climate change. lift the ban on negotiating less expensive drugs under medicare. and then as the name of the bill says, bring inflation down by 305 billion dollars a deficit reduction. oil need 50 votes. we don t need 60 we don t need any republican votes to do something significant for working families in this country. unfortunately, for fairly well known reasons we have conservative democrats. we couldn t get the 50 votes that we need r
things they care about. we don t have to make things up when the republicans do their big tax bill in 2017, they said it will reduce your taxes to the average middle class person. it was aimed at the rich. we are talking about exactly what this bill does. we don t have to make it up because we are aiming directly at the american people and what they want. so, let me say this. say no to something is easy. it gets mistaken that no, say no, that is tough. there is no strategy or counting to saying no. it s simple, it is easy. legislating is about getting to yes. i ve always been a yes person. not a no person. always wanted to get something done. if you ask me, what helped you get the stun? some people have asked me that. i put it in one word, persistence. i just tell you a brief story for those of you who haven t heard about my dad. my dad passed away in november, he would have been 99 on flight day, june 14th. he was i won t go into the whole story, but he was a brilliant par
using reconciliation. this senate, democratic led senate, has passed a bill that does all of the above and still reduces the deficit by hundreds of millions of dollars. and joe manchin was and left his real imprint on this bill with deficit reduction. which i think, all of my caucus happily follows. and i want to again thank, the leadership artwork and persistence of all of my colleagues, their teamwork, spirited teamwork, their knowledge that we had to gather to get something done. awesome to me, not awesome in the way the kids use the word but in the biblical sense. it s a tremble, in abu for the angels of god. just amazing. the american people as you know are overwhelmingly support the legislation. it s not hard to understand white americans feel this way. we are delivering all the