saturday. griff: all right. coming up, sunday night fox nation documentary, the collapse of governor andrew cuomo at 10:00 p.m. right here on the fox news channel. jacqui: live image where chuck schumer has promised the chamber will stay in session until they get the 1 trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill done. it has been going on and chad is live at the capitol breaking it all down for us. chad, any movement since we last spoke? it has been. not if the senate will approve the bipartisan infrastructure bill but when. in just the past few minutes the senate has overcome a filibuster on a test vote for the bill. it needed 60 yeas, the vote is still open but they have more than 60 yes , this is the second weekend session in the a row for the senate and democrats are saying, just finish the bill. sometimes one or two bridges in that community is the bridge
yeas to move forward. the senate could then move to consider the final version of the bill which could pass is soon as late saturday night int early sunday morning. now to the travel nightmare right in the middle of summer vacation season. spirit airlines has canceled almost to hundred flights and sunday leaving countless travelers stranded. the company s explanation and what it plans to do to clean up the mess. i ve been worried, i ve been up all night checking the fligh status. it was the sixth consecutive day of flight cancellations for spirit airlines. this has been a horrible we deserve better pretty get the discount carrier blamed a combination of weather, system outages, and staffing shortages that led to the cancellation of roughly to thousand flights since sunday. we ve had like four canceled flights, we didn t end up being
we were still trying to reach out to some republicans to see if we could convince them. the yeas are 60. the yeas are 39. hr 35 as amended, the patient protection and affordable care act, is passed. an historic vote, a first for the senate on christmas eve since the late 1800s, bringing health care reform one step closer to reality. senate democrats pushed through their version of the bill against unanimous opposition from republicans. democrats took their victory lap and republicans warmed up for another round in the fight. this fight isn t over. in fact this fight is long from over. my colleagues and i will work to stop this bill from becoming law. we had passed a bill out of the house and we had passed a bill out of the senate. when the house passes a bill and the senate passes a bill, it goes to something called a conference committee. the conference committee resolves differences between the two bills.
address what they call human infrastructure, things for medicare expansion, education assistance, more government assistance. those debates are till coming, but there s a lot of debate about whether they re going to have the democratic votes needed to get a bill like that across. while the president was eager to say that a deal has been reached, when you hear from a lot of other folks, there s indications this is still a long way from being a done deal. arthel: mark meredith live at the white house, thanks. on this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. eric: well, that s vice president harris presiding over the senate as is one of her vp duties, announcing that sweeping voting bill did not move forward. senate democrats are growing more frustrated about that after republicans relied on the senate filibuster rule to block that
the voting rights bill for the time being is dead. him tonight, this was not an up or down vote. this was a procedural vote. we need 60 votes to clear a filibuster. all 50 democrats were yeas. all 50 republicans were nos for vice president harris presideded but she cannot break a tie on a procedural vote. chuck schumer, the democratic leader, he blamed republicans for obstruction. senate republicans have signed their names in the ledger history alongside donald trump, the big lie and voter suppression, to their enduring disgrace. a this vote, i m ashamed to say, is further evidence that voter suppression has become part of the official platform of theth republican party. just the idea that vice president harris presided over the vote told you how important this bill is to democrats. j