i think both manchin and sinema, they have been obviously intimately involved in the contours of this now bill which is around 7.5 billion. and i think we ll get that done as well. how soon do you think you ll vote on the infrastructure bill? progressive jayapal thinks this will be ready in the next couple days, or is that overoptimistic to think it will happen this week? the house operates on a different schedule than the senate. i m not going to predict the house, but if they can put a couple wins on the board this week, all better for all concerned. the bipartisan infrastructure bill gets immediately signed by the president and it becomes the law. even on an accelerated timeline in the house, the senate, because of some of the rules and reconciliation process, that was going to take another couple weeks to get that done. moving the process to the house,
the vice president raised questions about when senator booker was mayor of newark and the police department. why did you announce in the first day a zero tolerance policy of stop and frisk and hire rudy giuliani s guy in 2007? mr. vice president, there s a saying in my community you re dipping into the kool-aid and you don t even know the flavor. new jersey had the aclu that said i embraced reforms not just in actions, but in deeds. that was during the debate. he sat down after this and all politicians do this, but that presentation was an overgloesy, overoptimistic, overfriendly explanation of his relationship with the aclu. in 2010 the aclu files a 96-page complaint against the newark police department. you ve been mayor four years. three years later, you re right, they do commend you after an investigation, after the justice department gets involved, but at the beginning it was more
explain to everybody exactly what the component number is, why it s so central to determining whether the fragment is that from mh-370. well, the boeing company and probably the airline know exactly what the numbers are. uh-huh. in the aircraft. so that will not be the question. but i think that i think people are being a little overoptimistic about what this means. how do you mean? overoptimistic that it s actually going to lead to a larger section of the plane, the black box the cockpit voice recorder? yes. if people should remember that the air france flight going from brazil to paris went down and it took them two years to find the fuselage. and they d find parts and lots of other things. and that was on a line that was the flight was being
putting too much emphasis on that? too much emphasis compared to what? let s go back to health care for a second, 7.1 is a heck of a lot better than 6.1 or whatever, but i think that the notion that candidates are going to start running towards obamacare instead of away from it, especially those in danger, senate democrats in reddish states, that might be a little overoptimistic from the democratic point of view, so then the question is, if obamacare is still going to be something of a drag, which i m afraid it s going to be in certain states, what is the kind of thing that can help democrats get their voters motivated, help get them to the polls, minimum wage is, raising the minimum wage is substantively a good idea and politically, because substantively it s not going to happen, it s not going to get past the house, but politically, it s a darn good thing to be running with, so i have to respectfully disagree with my colleague, kathleen parker.
underperforming. everyone thought the fed would taper off here. inflation is below expectations and unemployment is below expectations. classic monetary policy in that instance, stay loose. there are a lot of people critical of this policy and have predicted there s terrible inflation. it s nowhere to be seen. the fed is not the problem with the economy. it s the fiscal and regulatory policy. it s interesting marra, chairman bernanke said the fed had been overoptimistic. that was his word about the idea the idea is growing faster and they d be able to ease off the stimulus puddle. they also lowered projections for growth the rest of this year. of course all this comes just at a time when congress and the president seem headed for another possible train wreck over the government budget and also the debt limit. bernanke also mentioned the uncertainty about that also a