started, to get it started. and the rule, if there s any rule in congress that every party adheres to, it s when you have the votes, you take the vote. so they took the vote. they re on in the process. they re in the legislative process of debate now. now, we are just waiting for that next step where you actually have the bill. and we re, still, waiting on that. what about the other half of this process? the house. they re out. so this seems like it s going to have to sit, until mid-september? how does that work? well, nancy pelosi has made perfectly clear this bill could sit for weeks, maybe months, while this whole-other parallel process plays out. the the reconciliation bill that you talked about, $3.5 trillion. she has said, on multiple occasions, as recently as this past week, that she does not expect to hold a vote on the bipartisan bill until that democrats-only bill is ready to go, alongside it. and that s the reason they are doing that is, frankly, it s
it s in the constitution, actually. so, that s one reason you do the shell. the other reason you do the shell is they have an agreement in principal. they have a handshake deal. they have an outlined they they have the votes to proceed with this. they have the votes to keep it started, to get it started. and the rule, if there s any rule in congress that every party adheres to, it s when you have the votes, you take the vote. so they took the vote. they re on in the process. they re in the legislative process of debate now. now, we are just waiting for that next step where you actually have the bill. and we re, still, waiting on that. what about the other half of this process? the house. they re out. so this seems like it s going to have to sit, until mid-september? how does that work? well, nancy pelosi has made perfectly clear this bill could sit for weeks, maybe months, while this whole-other parallel process plays out. the the reconciliation bill that you talked about,