measures it has a price tag that is paid for. it is wildly popular with the american people. our insistence is that it gets done and there are a handful of democrats for their own mysterious ever shifting set of reasons, they insist that the president s agenda just should wait let s instead pass the small roads and bridges bill right now. we ll get to the rest of what we want to do later, maybe never. we re scared of big things but the progressives are saying no, let s do it. and that s what s drooig things ri driving things right now we have always had progressive members of congress. we have never had them use their powers like this, not just to insist on their policies being more liberal but the agenda being effective. they are not changing the agenda, and taking over from the ostensible moderates, they are pushing the timetable. the calendar is why things get interesting this week, and why washington is going to be a
mysterious ever shifting set of reasons, they insist that the president s agenda just should wait. let s instead pass the small roads and bridges bill right now. we ll get to the rest of what we want to do later, maybe never. we re scared of big things. but the progressives are saying, no, let s do it. and that s what s driving things right now. we have always had progressive members of congress. we have never had them use their powers like this, not just to insist on their policies being more liberal but the agenda being effective. they are not changing the agenda and taking it over from the ostensible moderates and the centrists. instead they re pushing the timetable, pushing the calendar, insisting on anxious. and the calendar is why things get interesting this week and why washington is going to be a fascinating place as the center of the news universe this week.
0 us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker s job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president. just a huge history-making deal. so she s always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it. she is specifically unquestionably good at