president biden budget. like his constituents west virginia who kayaked up to his both today. to plead with him to support the bill. and he did again to his credit have along back and forth with them tonight. so that is one reason that the vast majority of democrats in west virginia are intent on passing the presidents agenda and getting it done intact and quickly. it is just super popular with voters. it is popular in west virginia, it is popular nationwide, it is popular yes among democrats, it is popular among self consign republicans and conservative. but the other reason democrats want to get this done is because they don t want this thing to drag on for months. they certainly do not want to pass a small roads and bridges bill, and watch the larger biden legislation, all of his other economic agenda items for his first term as president language in this negotiation. they have a big legislation like this, delaying means
trillion dollar bill will ever pass, the mission misses significantly. the best chance of getting it done is for that more conservative bill on the larger more progressive bill to move together. if i were to house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what let s let enough house republican votes for this, again lots of republicans like that. legislation lets another republican vote for this, that it passes. because we don t mind this bill, it s fairly conservative bill it lines up with a lot of conservative priorities, and we can thereby remove all the leverage the progressives have, the larger bill will never pass. this whole well with a waste of time for the democrats. and will get something to brag about next week, next year. for our reelection campaigns in our home state. why is that not alive possibility? that seems rational to me? i actually had a similar thought, rachel, a few hours ago. why aren t republican leaders providing some votes to pass the infrastru
this hour. now house speaker nancy pelosi said that she is holding a vote today on the small bipartisan roads in bridges bill, that has already passed the senate. this is a little slice of president biden s agenda, that was hived off from the main budget by a couple of conservative democratic senators. because they wanted to pass some piece of something with some republican votes. and this was the only little piece of this that any republicans would consent to support. progressives in the house say that they re only going to vote for that little bill, if the centrist vote for the big bill to. they said listen, we don t necessarily like the little bill. in fact we think that if it passes alone it might make climate change work. this is not our kind of thing. this is not what democrats were sent to congress to do. but we will do it. we will vote for it. as long as the centrist vote for the big budget bill to.
fear as you point out, is if the infrastructure bill passes than centrist democrats in the house in the senate will bolt. they will say, we didn t commit to doing this other thing. or we would like to shrink it, cut it in half. centralist democrats said that s not what they re planning to do. congressman josh gottheimer has been pushing for the vote. he said he s committed to reconciliation. bill the progressives are lest their more worried about centrist democratic senators, two in particular. kristen sinema and joe manchin. manchin came out with his plan for the first time today, his price tag publicly at least, 1.5 trillion dollars. which is a far cry from the three and a half trillion that the vast majority of democrats. once senator cinema has not so ever number is. she s not given any number at all. that opaqueness is only reaffirming the desire among progress is to hold up the infrastructure bill. among republicans, there s a group called the problem solvers caucus in the hous
congresswoman tell that story again. alongside congresswoman we were to other members of congress who also share their personal stories about choosing to have an abortion. last week, the full house passed a bill called the women s health protection acts. it would codify the protections established in roe v. wade, and guarantee the right for american women to have an abortion. the fate of this bill remains an open question in the senate, as long as the filibuster exist, there s no reason to be optimistic about its chances of reaching president biden s desk. meanwhile texas is abortions ban is in effect. there is one potential source of hope right now, for abortion rights advocates. tomorrow there will be a court hearing in the case of the u.s. justice department is brought against the state of texas, over its new abortion ban. tomorrow the justice department will argue before a federal judge, that that judge should immediately blocked the law from continuing to be enforced. it would ess