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about not passing this last week. i was very unhappy because we had an october 31st deadline, and i thought that that was eloquent but not enough, i guess. so now we re going to pass both bills, but in order to do so we have to have votes for both bills, and that s where we are. and that s where they still are as of this hour with speaker pelosi hoping to have votes on both bills tomorrow. house democrats are still negotiating amongst themselves to reach an agreement on what should be in the latest version of the bill that democrats plan to pass without any republican support. the other bill which nancy pelosi referred to as bif is the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate in august and would be ready for the president s signature as soon as the house passes it. today congress nonpartisan professional staff on the committee on joint taxation
you have to overcome? i ll let you know as soon as i wish to. you re just worried about your own schedule. i know that. but the fact is our members are engaged in very thoughtful deliberation with each other. as i said to you before, 90% of this bill had been agreed to, white house, senate, and written. we ve made some changes since last week. people need to familiarize themselves with it. that was the purpose of our meeting this morning. i was inspired by just once again hearing the depth of knowledge and breadth of vision of our colleagues. and we ll let you know. but i think many of you know i was really very unhappy about not passing this last week. i really was very unhappy, because we had an october 31st deadline, and i thought that that was eloquent but not enough, i guess. so now we re going to pass both
now we have strong caucus support for the framework for build back better. something i wanted to say is that, you know, the speaker talked about lifting the president as he lands in europe and as he visits with foreign leaders, as he visits with pope fra frances. i would tell you, if you were in that caucus today, you would have felt the lift our caucus, when he asked for the vote, the applause, the standing ovation he received on the framework and many elements in it was just extraordinary. so, i think we sent him off with a lift. i m not sure of the clock on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. i, too, wish we could get it done because of the october 31st deadline. we want to avoid any interruption or furloughs for american families. but i have a confidence, be we will get both of these things done and i don t know if you saw the statement by former president barack obama. we did. he said, sometimes things
october 31st deadline. can you briefly, anna, mention that leigh ann mentioned on the billionaire s tax. had some momentum and has that momentum gone away? yeah, we reported this afternoon in punchbowl news midday that it s basically all but dead. as much of some of the corporate billionaire tax seems to have a wide swath and individual tax is one that senator joe manchin has been very skeptical of and as we continue this process, you know, really it comes down to one vote in the senate and we kind of have thumbs up or thumbs down from joe manchin or kyrsten sinema and that s what is determining what is in or not part of this package. anna and leigh ann, i ll ask you two to stay with us. monica, thank you so much. i know we ll see you on the air again soon. we appreciate it. i want to bring in one of the key players we ve been talking about her in the