for democrats it s full steam ahead and working in a rare saturday session. the process is very lengthy. we ll see it kick off tomorrow afternoon and stretch over the course of the weekend because the rules would tell you once they go on the motion to proceed, the first process in order to get on to this bill, they then have to go through 20 hours of debate at least and then there are other things that republicans can do to try to slow it down before this so-called vote-a-rama period, an unlimited period of amendments and then they could ultimately pass it. we re only here talking about that because of senator kyrsten sinema, who was able to get the changes she wanted on the bill. they, contrary to what schumer and manchin may have wanted. i believe strongly in the carried loophole and i pushed for it to be in this bill. senator sinema said she would not even move to proceed unless she took it out so we had no choice. they re going to do lots of amendments. we don t know wh
not even move to proceed unless she took it out so we had no choice. they re going to do lots of amendments. we don t know what else they will do. i believe we will have 50 votes to pass this legislation at the end of the day. so you re hearing a confident tone there from schumer, who in that last sound bite was responding to a question i asked saying, all right, now that sinema is on board, is it smooth sailing ahead? a lot of democrats are skittish about this bill. they re happy to be where they are and the tax reform provisions that will leverage more taxes on the wealthy and corporations, all of these are policy priorities in the democratic party. at the same time, this bill has come together and fallen apart so many times. several senate democrats i ve been speaking to over the course of the last week were saying they won t really believe it s happened until it s happened and we re in for a long weekend in order to make that happen. i know this is a big win for dems but can yo