in the meantime, we want to take you to a washington development. we could get a vote on the next associate justice of the supreme court. chad, what are you hearing? chuck schumer said for a couple of days by the end of this week, i have learned that confirmation if everything goes according to the plant will probably come between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow night. she just needs a simple majority for confirmation. we believe all senators are there and vote she could score as high as 53 yeas. we expect vice president harris to preside over the vote. her tie-breaking vote does not necessarily does not necessarily needed. we might have some absent. there have been four members of the house of representatives who have contracted covid just today, neil.
Three hours. Afterwards the two president s held separate News Conferences but hit some of the same tones and themes, Mutual Respect and optimism tempered by realism. I did what i came to do. The bottom line is i told President Putin we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. I made it clear to him that i believe. Consequences of that would be devastating for russia. I dont think hes looking for a cold war with the United States. President putin seemed to be looking for the right category for mr. Biden, among the four u. S. President s he has met with during his 20 years leading russia. Translator he is very balanced, professional man, its obviously clear that he is very experienced and it seems to me that we did speak the same lan language. Certainly doesnt imply that we must look into each others eyes and find a soul or swear eternal friendship. Our chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is live in geneva. Good morning. Youve now had some time to
engineer a vote to make members of the opposing party look bad but it s rare to do that to members of your own party. manchin is not moving. i just don t know how you break a rule to make a rule and thinking you are doing something we have never done this. capitol police today arrested 30 people for protesting the filibuster. they refused to move from the senate steps. republicans say democrats aren t focusing on problems facing the country. we have inflation, a pandemic, rampant violent crime. the border crisis. rather than work on any of that, senate democrats want to march their own legacies with a regularless, reckless procedural vote they know will fail. expect a vote to break the voting rights tomorrow. that needs 60 yeas. democrats could then try to change the filibuster just for voting rights. if all of their members stick together, but that vote will fail, too.
of course, the new administration including kamala harris, the first female u.s. vice president ever, had other issues to tackle. there was the pandemic to manage, the economic fallout, and democrats vowing to turn things around, which was not so easy. yeah, i mean, the democrats are kind of blowing this moment. on this vote, the yeas are 69. the nays are 30. the bill as amended is passed. a rapidly developing rift between progressives and centrists nearly scuttled one of the best wins for the white house. the infrastructure bill. sometimes simple decisions are made hard by the other baggage you bring into a situation or what s going on. i was not extending a forever exit. and that came well after the worst stumble by the new white house. the calamitous exit from afghanistan following 19 years of war.
i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to hr-5746. i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to hr-5746 with an amendment. clerical report with an amendment. senator from new york, mr. schumer moves to concur the house amendment to the senate amendment with an amendment numbered 4903. i ask that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. without objection, it s ordered. mr. president, i asked for yays and nays on a motion to concur with the amendment. there appears to be a sufficient second. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. president, i have an amendment to amendment number to the amendment what you re seeing is the procedure this is a workaround procedure that the majority leader chuck schumer