with only democrats? i understand republicans aren t on board. you have two democrats holding out. senators manchin and sinema. can something get done? are you any closer to convincing them. those conversations have being had and senator manchin is involving in the group led by senator tester and kane. so there are many times in which i worked on the floor of the house, we could take legislation to the floor and still working out, making sure that we have all of the votes. but had you to take it to the floor because it was significant. and this is going to be one of those pieces of legislation that i think, when history looks back on it, people will want to be on the right side of history. we know that voting rights is always been a struggle in this country. but we ve made a lot of gain. and that this is not like any other issue. victor, as you know, as i know, this is personal for so many of us. because our forefathers and foremothers didn t have that right to vote. and now we do.
was governor of california and there was a desire to have a payroll tax as an income tax, he said my feet are in concrete on this issue. and then in 1970 when there was a crisis in terms of a shortage of cash flow, he said, that sound that you hear is the concrete cracking up around my feet. he changed his position whereas as we grow, we rethink and change our positions. mike: republicans aren t on board with the voting rights bills as currently crafted. the president said he would be able to reach across the aisle and work with republicans s. there any evidence that president biden has called senator romney or other moderate republicans to see what they could support? congressman: my hope is that he has. i don t i m not privy to his agenda, to his calendar. but my belief is that he has if i had to place a bet without knowing. my belief is that this president believes that he can communicate with republicans across the aisle and he has demonstrated
florida, welcoming a rhino calf. born on world rhino day. i would go there on field trips. want to see your interesting videos. hit us up @shannonbream or @foxnewsnight on social media. democrats and republicans taking part in america s favorite pastime. part of an annual tradition were members of congress play a friendly yet competitive baseball game. the g.o.p. tops the democrats 13-12. carly shimkus was there tonight. the congressional baseball game received a surprise guest. president biden. he s been rearranging his schedule to get congress to pass multiple spending packages but some democrats and republicans aren t on board. it will not cost anything except that you re going to pay
bipartisan way. but there are those not so confident they ll get ten republican senators, dow think they ll get them. they think if the first measure does fail, they think doing that, going through the process and proving that the republicans aren t on board with this process will allow them to make a much bigger push on party lines using reconciliation down the line in a few months. obviously we re not quite at that point yet, but there are a lot of democratic senators cautiously optimistic, more so than a few days ago. gabe, that s totally right. democrats outside the building say, hey, if this falls apart, we can go that much bigger on the reconciliation bill, and we re sending reassuring signals to the moderates. let me ask you about something else, the sort of interesting dynamic in washington where, yes, as we just discussed, that vote fell apart yesterday, but there s some sort of bipartisan energy over infrastructure.
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