u.s. history, putting forth more than 300 billion dollars for climate clean energy investment, including a methane reduction program, which rewards farmers and ranchers for reducing methane emissions. environmental justice block grants, a climate bank provision to make investments in clean energy technology, and energy efficiency. an extension of the electric vehicle tax credit. guaranteed wage rates for clean energy jobs, in four billion dollars for drought funding, one of several items of the democratic arizona senator kirsten sinema negotiated into the bill in order to end her hold out for. it on drug pricing, the inflation production act gives medicare the power to negotiate some prices with drug companies for the first time, with the goal of lowering prescription drug costs for seniors. however, a provision would ve kept the price increase for prescription drugs in the commercial market, but penalizing companies, was blocked by the senate parliamentarian. she said it cou
needs of working families. meanwhile, republicans push for amendments in support of cold lines and reducing gas taxes. and even against hiring more irs agents. they are going to be collecting about close to 740 billion dollars in new tax revenue over the next supposedly 5 to 10 years, but most certainly it is not going to help get us through a tight time. certainly it is not the time in which we start adding additional government employees. talking 87,000 more irs employees. i don t think very many american citizens are going to want to see that. the vote-a-rama will continue for at least the next few hours before the bill is expected to pass the senate. it will come up for a final house vote on friday, and president biden is expected to sign it as soon as it passes. biden has left the white house for the first time since testing positive for covid-19. he traveled to for union with first lady jill biden. meanwhile, new warning to donald trump or one of his allies. tru
Steps to remove him from office. congressman, before we let you go, i want to congratulate you on your family and you have a lot of attention for feeding your son and changing diapers while on the house floor during that marathon vote for speaker. you know parents obviously can see this and recognize, this is what they do every day. are you surprised at how much attention that this got? i am actually very surprised. the idea for me was always just to, i wanted to bring my son to the floor and show him off. i m a first time, that i was very proud of him. and it s a sad commentary that i get praised for watching over my son and if a woman did the same thing, her commitment to her job would be question. so this is 2020, three 1923. we have to move beyond the fact that women are the default parent. the idea that the woman no matter what happens in the schedule of the child, they get sick, that that women automatically takes care of the child. we have to move beyond that and
Leadership was in a near fight in the middle of the marathon vote. greene screaming at her colleague and former friend lauren boebert a holeout in a bathroom right off the house floor. donald trump staying out of the bitter battle for the republican national chair telling a conservative podcast, quote, let them fight it out. the incumbent chairwoman ronna mcdaniel being challenged by the former trump attorney army dylan. they will pick their next leader next month. president biden traveling to california after declaring a major disaster there over the weekend. if you ve been watching nine storms slamming the coast wr racking up damage at $9 billion. we ll see you tomorrow. erica hill picks up our coverage right now. top of the hour, i m erica hill in new york. we begin with frankly chilling
Headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. i am cory coffin. it is nearly 13 hours of senate debate on the inflation production act. the overnight marathon vote-a-rama session is still underway. that includes five major buckets like tax reform, climate investment, deficit reduction, drug pricing, reform and health care subsidies. democrats are standing firm, but meghan all attempts to change the bill. including amendments on climate change and health care with senator bernie sanders. he says he will support the bill, but democrats are missing a unique opportunity to do more. we only need 50 votes. we don t have to get 60 votes. we don t need any republican votes, to do something significant for working families in this country. and unfortunately for fairly well-known reasons, we have two conservative democrats, we could not get the 50 votes that we, need really, to impact the