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age. two issues weighing on the public s view of his presidency. new poll numbers to add to the mix there and to add to the issue that they re concerned about no doubt at the white house. first to wisconsin where we have just learned more about the suspect in the christmas parade tragedy. police say that darrell brooks had been involved in a domestic disturbance minutes before the crash. take a look at his rap sheet. it s nearly 50 pages long. he was released on bail ten days before the parade last night. some of this is very hard to watch. police say brooks intentionally slammed his s.u.v. into the christmas parade in waukesha outside of milwaukee. the woman that shot this video, she was looking out her apartment over her balcony to send this video to her kids to show them the parade. she was said it was surreal. the car didn t stop. he went completely down to the end of the block. at the end of the block he turned to the left. i can see the whole street from my view ....
thank you for being here everyone. let s get to these top stories at this hour. first, president biden considering drastic measures to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the president now seems open to senate democrats using the so-called nuclear option to raise the debt ceiling, something he previously was against. listen to this. to raise the debt limit using a carve out with the filibuster to raise the debt limit? i think that s a real possibility. a real possibility now. getting rid of the filibuster here means democrats would need only a simple majority, 50 just over 50 votes which they would have without needing any republican buy-in. secondly, the senate is expected to hold a test vote this afternoon on a measure to suspend the debt ceiling until 2022. that s expected to fail. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is breaking his silence in a new statement released hours after frances how long again urged congress to regulate social media giants like facebook, z ....
fpz. how do you bridge this gap? there will be a vote today. now we wait. the house getting back into session half an hour from now. this first battle clearly goes to the progressives who held their ground and forced pelosi to delay the vote. but they have a big problem now in the senate where joe manchin said last night he would not go over $1.5 trillion for the proposed human infrastructure bim bill. so if there s going to be a deal on these bills, it looks like it s going to take some time. i want to bring in peter alexander. i m sure none of you got where do things stand on the hill. do we know even for sure if there is going to be a vote today. speaker pelosi continues to express a lot of optimism. she s saying she can get it done, but there s yet to be determined if it s going to happen today. this could be just another setback, but it s not failure just quite yet. house democrats are meeting as a family at 10:30 this morning. and there should be a lot of ....
minutes because the time clock is not working. the subcommittee on health will now come to order. good morning colleagues, good morning mister secretary. welcome due to covid-19 today s hearing is being held remotely as well as in person. for members taking part remotely, microphones will be set on mutual emanate background noise. members will need to unmute their microphones when you wish to speak. since members are participating from different locations, at today s hearing recognition of members for questions will be in the order of sub committee seniority. documents for the record should be sent to meghan mullen at the email address we have provided to your staff. all documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. secretary becerra has a hard stop at 1:15, pm today. you will find that i will not be my usual generous self in terms of not lowering the gavel after five minutes is consumed. we want to have enough time for every member to ques ....
race-based admissions or race as a factor in the admissions process, but we do not yet know how they will come down in a case that has been continuously a part of successive supreme court confirmation hearings, and let alone ballot initiatives in places like california. just so you know, it is in the zone of 10:00 p.m., and the rulings could come any second now. and we know two boxes that are delivered in writing there. and that means at least two decisions today, and there could be as many as four or so, because they can pack a couple into the box. but at least two, elie. and the gay rights decision in colorado is fascinating because of how the justices will choose to write about this. this has to do with whether someone has the right to refuse service because someone is gay. what are you looking for in terms of how the justices frame this, because if they say that you can refuse for x, why not y and z. what is interesting here is that we have tension conflict in t ....