over to investigators. good morning. it is sunday, august 7th. thanks for waking up with us. the alarm went off this morning, i was a little bit in pain and i thought at least i m not a capitol hill reporter right now. i was in pain this morning as well and i was excited to come in because i m glad to be anchoring with a capitol hill insider, or what do you call yourself, a procedural nerd? i called you last night to get some study points. a technical term. and that s exactly where we re going to start. up first, senate democrats pulling that all nighter as they move toward final passage of the sweeping climate and healthcare bill. right now senators are nearing their seventh straight hour of considering amendments in a so-called vote-a-rama. we didn t make that term up. that s what it is called in the senate. that marathon process began when the senate voted to advance the bill with vice president kamala harris breaking the tie. on this vote, the ayes are 50, the nay
correspondent manu raju looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, has been following all of the latest developments. manu, i miss capitol hill every day and working with you every day, i do not miss vote-a-ramas. what is going on right now what happened overnight as democrats moved toward potentially passing this soonish? reporter: no one likes the vote-a-ramas. even the senators themselves. i just walked in the senate chamber to see what the feeling was like among the senators there, and they looked surprisingly awake. there are members up, standing around, chitchatting, mingling. it looks like happy hour in the senate right now, not 6:00 in the morning after they have been voting since 11:00 p.m. 11:30 p.m. last night. and we expect hours and hours more of amendments. what makes this process much different than a typical legislative process is typically senators don t really get a chance to have votes on their amendments because of the rules of the senate. you need all 100 senators t
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