what happens if senator sinema says i want to change something or one of the climate groups says, we can t be onboard unless you water down or take out the fossil fuel provisions senator manchin insists on. does the deal have to pass as? is that where manchin is? let me start with the environmental groups. the vast majority of environmental organizations really like this bill. there are varying degrees of enthusiasm but the environmental community is unified with the exception for the center for biological diversity behind this legislation. i want to make that extremely clear. on whether or not any member can ask for any change, you know, that is chuck schumer s role to try to negotiate and land this package. i am pretty confident this bill is pretty baked as it is and we ll be able to pass it next week. we have a lot of work to do over the next seven days. nothing is guaranteed. we ve certainly failed on this before. i m not over confident. i do think we re in a good position to e
the speaker called it a security situation and would not discuss whether taiwan would be part of the travel plans. her stops include japan, malaysia, singapore all key u.s. allies in the region. the new york times reports the biden administration plans to begin offering updated boosters in september. the new shots are expected to work better against the highly transmissible omicron ba.5 sub variant. officials are holding off on expanding eligibility for second boosters until the new verg is available. currently only people 50 years or older and immuno compromised people are eligible for a second booster. the senate majority leader chuck schumer plans another vote on the closely watched burn pits bill. the multimillion dollar legislation would provide critical help to veterans who suffered toxic exposure to burns during military service. earlier this week 25 republican senators who previously supported the legislation voted against it calling for additional changes in the bill. the fa
this is age old. when global oil prices go higher energy companies benefit. they make a lot of money. conversely when oil prices are low and go down they lose a lot of money. that s invariable. that s been the case since the beginning of time. so i don t see anything different in the current environment than we ve seen historically. i wouldn t characterize what we re observing as gouging. the other thing, john, is we need energy companies to produce more oil so we need them to make money to be able to and high earnings and profits to incent them to go out and put more riggs in the ground and produce more oil and get the oil prices down. that is the key to getting inflation lower. thanks for your time. sure. up next for us, progress for the biden agenda after months and months and months of frustration. legislation to boost american technology investment on its way to the president s desk. democrats hope to follow up quickly with landmark changes to climate and health care.
new gun safety legislation. it s not a done deal but democrats believe they are on the verge of passing a package that makes giant climate and health care changes including steps designed to cut prescription drug costs. successful votes and bill signings are one way to document the legislative progress. here is another. watch republicans fight about it. the gun measure and chips legislation both passed with republican votes especially in the senate and that is the source of a lot of grumbling among republican lawmakers who don t want to give president biden any wins as we close in on 100 days for the midterm elections. our reporters are back with us. the president has taken a lot of grief, a polite term, for not being able to get his agenda through. 50/50 senate. there has to be some better mood at the white house that they are making at least some modest in the case of the chips bill and gun legislation major progress. what they ve seen over the past week is joe biden has a little b
room and it was a major moment as it was something they had been pushing for a while even though it is a bit cut back from the initial proposal. then you have that surprise manchin and schumer deal that really is reviving some portions of biden s initial agenda. of course there have been fits and starts with that proposal. there certainly could be some other road blocks in the way. one big question is even if they are able to tic through the accomplishments will it resonate with voters this quickly for the midterms in november. it takes time for the legislation to go into effect and at the time inflation and the economy still remains the top issue for voters heading into november. one way to tell, you can count the votes, watch the president sign legislation, or watch republicans fight. that is how you know democrats are doing something republicans don t like. this is the headline in a story you wrote with your colleague. internal gop tension rises as mcconnell s deal making puts him