biden plans to send sign the landmark legislation into law next week. it includes the most aggressive federal action on climate change to date, and has several other provisions that will immediately benefit all americans, red or blue. some of those benefits include free vaccines and the lower out of pocket minimum for medicare recipients. 70 $500 in credits for purchasing clean air energy vehicles. enhanced funding for the affordable care act. and a big one, those with government funded insurance no longer have to pay more than $35 a month for insulin. a reminder, republicans unanimously voted against the bill. to help us take a look into this historic bill, representative mondaire jones joins me now. all right, congressman, what is in here? like, what is in here that you are most excited about? first of all, let me just say, we did it. democrats are delivering for the people. we fought for so long. and we fought so hard. and many folks had given up on us. folks in the media in par
and we fought so hard. and many folks had given up on us. folks in the media in particular described the odds as insurmountable. but we got a scaled down version of build back better passed on friday. and now it is law. i am so excited about lowering the cost of prescription drugs for our seniors, to the point where, by the year 2025, no senior on medicare is going to pay more than $2,000 annually for their prescription drugs. this is personal for me. it is why i dedicated my speech on the house floor to my grandmother, who had to work well past the age of retirement just pay for the cost of prescription drugs not fully covered by medicare. now leads us to say, there are things you would even as i was reading the part about insulin, that was a biggie, right? he wanted to see that same price point, even for people who have private insurers. it is my understanding that part of the pitch the democrats are making ahead of midterms is, if you vote more of us in, then we will be able to
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obscure characters and that s one of my great loves and passions. we spoke on this weird wavelength where other people were left out as we discussed the finer points of jesse white. the last time i talked to gilbert he phoned me to have a discussion about irwin c. watson. he was a chitland circuit comic from the 1950s. he was an opening act for james background. gilbert phoned me. there were three levels to gilbert s voice. there was the famous loud, obnoxious screamer or that he emulated when he did the parrot in aladdin. then there was a scaled down version of that same voice, more controversial conversational but had the same nuances. then there was a third voice that the public never heard which i was honored to hear which was he would phone me and say, hey, cliff, it s gilbert. had a question for you about irwin c. watson. that s exactly what he sounded like. he really only spoke in his
at his news conference, biden insisted we re in a far better place than a year ago but also acknowledged the frustration and anger that so many americans are feeling. you have to look at things we used to look at on balance. what is the trajectory of the country? is it moving in the right direction now? i don t know how we can say it s not. i understand the overwhelming frustration, fear and concern with regard to inflation and covid. i get it. yet, the report card from voters isn t kind. just 28% of americans and fewer than half of democrats think biden should run for reelection. the biden white house is trying to push a scaled down version of the legislative agenda in the hopes of putting more wins on the board before the midterm elections. joining me now with their reporting and their insights,