Pivot to fighting to transition boldly to renewable energy because carbon dioxide and methane are destroying our planet and we see it all over the country. these are important things, these have to be welded together. so the house has to wait. if they hold a vote next monday, defeat it on the premise that the partner bill has not arrived yet. would they have to be welded together if there weren t what seems to be a trust deficit among democrats. they re not welded to keep the other party in line. you re talking about welding two pieces of legislation together to keep joe manchin and more moderate members of your own party in line here. i mean, what is going on in the democratic caucus that there is so little trust that everybody is pulling in the same direction for the same agenda? well, when we did the first bill, the infrastructure bill, we had an agreement over $3.5 trillion structure for the second bill. that s spending over a ten-year
Faith. their employer shouldn t be in the room deciding that for them. we look at the house of representatives and i think the expectation would be speaker boehner would not even put something like this on the floor and i know that there s a house sort of partner bill to what you re proposing. correct. if this is going nowhere in the house of representatives, then what s the point? not to sound fatalistic, but what would the point be? look, i have fought a lot of battles, i have worked hard on a lot of legislation, you don t give up before you start. i m counting on the people of this country to stand up and say, you know what, in 2014, we should no longer be fighting a battle over whether contraception is your decision or your boss s decision. and i wonder, you know, as we look towards we can t miss it s a midterm election year, knowing that even if you have the votes in the senate that it s not going to pass the house, you wouldn t expect it would get out of congress it b