this? i do support anything we can do. as you know, we have issues around what can be done in a budget bill a budge reconciliation bill. but i can tell with you a different hat on, since i chair the agriculture, nutrition and forestry committee. what i hear about all the time, including today, from farmers, is you know, they need help in terms of agriculture workers. the house earlier this year passed an important bill addressing ag workers as well as daca young people and other protections. and so i would love to see whatever we are able to do. what we really need is comprehensive immigration reform that addresses all of it. but until we can get there, we need to do what we can do. one of the things to get into more of a pure politics question for a second here, in her news conference this morning, you heard the speaking acknowledge it would have been helpful if they had gotten this done, passed a bill to show that
building bridges, $1.25 trillion over eight years focused on roads, bridges, rails, water infrastructure, resiliency, electric vehicles and carbon capture. so many things that are really in line with friends in my party and working close with brian fitzp fitzpatrick, who is here, building a bipartisan package we believe can get done. something that s urge enter that needs to get done and we have bipartisan support for it. i m eager for them to look at the package, see where we put forward and working with our bicameraal senators i believe we can get this done. brian fitzpatrick, you heard senator sanders say he doesn t support anything that would raise the gas tax. we heard that from president biden as well, tying it to
put out our framework called building bridges, $1.25 trillion over eight years focused on roads, bridges, rails, water infrastructure, resiliency, electric vehicles and carbon capture. so many things that are really in line with friends in my party and working close with brian fitzpatrick, who is here, building a bipartisan package we believe can get done. this is physical infrastructure and something that s urgent and that needs to get done. we have bipartisan support for it. i m eager for them to look at the package, see where we put forward and working with our bicameraal senators i believe we can get this done. congressman fitzpatrick, you heard senator sanders say he doesn t support anything that would raise the gas tax. we heard that from president
thing. it s hard to enforce. that s not a standard of whether or not you put the law in place. you put it in place and then you figure out how to enforce it. i m not in favor of all background why? because you you disagree no, no. i m asking you why you don t. why don t you like it? sure. i don t agree with universal background checks. i heard you. i haven t supported it. but why? i don t support anything except you answering my question, my friend and i love having you don t want show. i just answered your question. but why don t you support it? but why? i don t support universal background checks. i don t support you coming and me having to have a sale if i m paper work and stuff like that if i m giving my gun to my son. i just don t agree with that. what about gun show deals? i don t agree with gun registration. i don t agree with it. let me what about gun shows?
u.s. worked closely with during the war on iraq. secretary of state john kerry is in london today meeting with the foreign minister there. so certainly right now the u.s. is not just talking about what it can do but it s talking to countries in the region. how they can help support anything that the u.s. would do because they ll need overflight rights. they ll need air space, that type of stuff and they ll also need cooperation from some of the allies that the u.s. is going to focus on some of the air defensive type of things. maybe the british can help with counter terrorism things. training, stuff like that. logistics. it s not going to be the u.s. that s going to be able to do this alone. they re going to need a lot of help and that s what the u.s. is doing now. consulting with allies to talk about how everyone can work together. yeah, a lot of planning and coordination. thank you so much for laying it out for us. we appreciate it. and coming up next right here on