special nursing care, and i believe it really helped him because he loved them so much. when i was preparing to speak today, i learned about a farewell letter dad wrote with a former staff member. none of us neo-knew that he had written this letter. he swore him to seek circumstances and he kept a secret. the joke is you may move on to other jobs, but once you re a dole staffer, you re always a dole staffer, and a lot of people in this room know that. i would like to share in closing part of that letter, and i encourage you all to read it in its entiahrt. it has been released to the public as he wished. here are his words.
the president ran on that delivered us the house, the senate and the white house is in the build back better agenda. if we fail to deliver on that promise, we have failed the american people. we are not we are not we are not in the business, right, of wasting this once in a lifetime opportunity to deliver on the promises that we have made in child care, in health care and in addressing our climate infrastructure and in address our standard infrastructure as well. now that now that joe manchin has laid down his marker, 1 been the 5 trillion, will progressives now counter with another number? look, those negotiations are going on as i understand it at the white house. the speaker has committed to us that nothing will be agreed to because she knows that we have to we have to sign off on it. look, there s too many of us that have been very clear that we re going deliver on the entiahrt of the president s