block to reconciliation bill. katie porter democrat of california s knee deep in the negotiation for the budget reconciliation bill, and she joins me now. good to have you congresswoman. first of all, you re in a district, redistricting is happening so you have a different district, it might change, but your district that you re in is a pretty split district a lot of swing voters. do you feel confident going back to your district and saying look, i m proud to have voted for the bill in full and be able to convince your constituents that is a good vote. absolutely, my constituents know that what is in the build back better agenda is what they need. they know that because they voted for president biden. this is the president s agenda that we are supporting right now, and it deals with real problems that families are facing in my district in across the country. difficulty in affording childcare, the cost of college, difficulties in finding care to take care of seniors climate
president for environment policy d social initiatives, part of apple s push to be seen as a good corporate citizen. just lasteek she released a statemt thataid addressing e urgent reat oclimate chan is a ypriority d call for enactmenof clean ergy standard. th s great, that asure included in presidt joe biden budget reconciliation bill, jacksos callchoes letterent to lawmaks in july advocatin for a clean ectricity standard, it signed by over 100 companies including apple. again, that s all good, that clean energy is very imrtant, the problem is that around the same time, ape was signing that letter, a group called the business roundtable was engaged ins their spokesperson put it a significant multi faceted campaign to fight corporate tax increases which is a key funding mechanism for the very same bill tt now includes the clean energy standar which has been converted to clean energy payments to utilities.