senate majority leader chuck schumer has said they will move quickly after infrastructure to start work on that resolution. that will likely set off the so-called vote-a-rama where we see a marathon session likely on the senate floor tonight before any of this, brianna, gets over the finish line. vote-a-rama, it sounds so fun but really it s not. that s what i ve learned about vote-a-rama. sunlen serfaty live for us in capitol hill. as sunlen noted, after senate passes the next stop for the infrastructure bill is the house and house speaker nancy pelosi has said they will not take it up until senate democrats pass a $3.5 trillion budget plan or at least the way to get it through. christine romans joins us to explain what s in the $3.5 trillion proposal. it is the dems budget blueprint a $3.5 trillion package of democrat-only priorities with the focus on spring thing american families. these are the human infrastructure investments that the white house wants to become
will move to that immediately after passing the infrastructure bill and that will set up a so-called vote-a-rama where senators will be voting throughout the night offering unlimited amendments, so a lot of work left to do before they get the items over the finish line. and the uncertain future in the house is because of the republicans or progressives? there progressives certainly are the big problem here as far as democrats. that is why you have these moderate democrats who are pushing speaker of the house nancy pelosi to move to this quickly. they certainly don t want this bill to be twisting in the wind after so much work. sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez said she feared the mob rampaging through the capitol on january 6 would not only kill her. she tells dana bash that barricaded in the bathroom of her office this afternoon, she had a flashback to a sexual assault she had endured years
resolution which then leads you to a reconciliation bill which would occurrence of timber or october after they come back from the recess. is that your understanding of the sequence? yes. i think you pretty much nailed it, lawrence. there is going to be a whole bunch of come to jesus moments between now and september. yeah. and october. the first one is going to be when they take this budget resolution and a set of four, to the senate floor, as a veteran of the senate you know that there s nothing worse than the so-called vote-a-rama where they go around one and men went after another one all of which are designed to inflict massive amount of political pain. most of which would be offered by republicans. that is after democrats negotiate with them, themselves, about how large the budget is gonna be. senator sanders is looking at six trillion. and i that s honestly not going to happen. but once they get through the
Senate GOP Down One for Stimulus Vote-a-Rama as Dan Sullivan Returns Home for Funeral
On 3/5/21 at 8:12 PM EST
Alaskan Republican Senator Dan Sullivan has left Washington D.C. for a funeral as the Senate votes on potential amendments to the coronavirus relief package.
Sullivan s return to his home state is due to the funeral of his father-in-law, which is being held in Fairbanks, according to
The Hill. Senator Sullivan intended to vote against final passage of the bill and made his opposition clear in a statement on Thursday, after his vote against the motion to proceed with consideration of the bill, Sullivan spokesperson Nate Adams told