Todd: the state department saying there are less than a dozen americans stranded in the television control country. todd: raising the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion. the vote was along party lines. adam can figure the only republican to vote with democrats in favor of the limit increase. voting on the debt ceiling just hours before that september 15th deadline. the democrat-controlled house voting last night to hold former white house chief of staff mark meadows in, contempt of congress. it is to the justice department to pursue criminals charges. meadows is the second for trump official after steve bannon to be referred to the doj. the vote was 2-to-to-208 with liz cheney and adam can figure voting with democrats for the resolution. andrew cuomo lashing out as he is ordered to return more than $5 million in profits on his book on pandemic leadership.
Need it. so he wants it means tested, and income capped, so there s a lot of negotiations that are still to be done between the moderates like manchin and even senator kyrsten sinema, and democratic leaders, and they re operating on an extremely tight deadline. they want to pass this bill before the end of september. there s a deadline of september 15th to complete the writing of this legislation. but chris, let me say, i just spoke with senator mark warner of virginia, and i asked him if they re going to be able to meet that september 15th deadline, even just having the legislative text, and he laughed at that. it seems like it s not very possible these deadlines are going to be met. that s a no. so jim, timeline aside, six days maybe be wishful thinking, but this is such a critical part of president biden s agenda. you know him, you know how the negotiations work. you also know the power wielded right now by manchin and sinema, so how do you see this playing
Congress is about to return with a crowded and busy month ahead, and it s not just the biden agenda that s at stake. cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is here at the magic wall to explain to us. so, just give us a sense of what congress has on its plate. well, look, i think busy doesn t even begin to describe what congress has ahead, brianna. they have a slew of deadlines. they re going to be working really around the clock. look, the senate comes back next week followed by the house the following week after that. but they are already very busy doing some of their work and that s because the house has imposed this september 15th deadline. that s when they want to be finished writing this democratic-only bill known as the reconciliation bill. it s really going to re-imagine health care in the country, family paid leave and rewrite the tax code. it will be marked up in the house ways and means committee. that is one piece of the democratic agenda.
Infrastructure bill. aides have been working behind the scenes feverishly to draft the details of the bill. congressional committees, white house officials have basically a september 15th deadline to finalize the details. they also have a deadline on the infrastructure proposal. house democrats agreeing to a september 27th deadline, between moderates and speaker nancy pelosi to consider that legislation. in the weeks ahead, pretty much the core. everything the president has laid out for the legislative agenda on the economic side will have to be done in the next few weeks. it s quite a needle to thread. one thing to keep in mind, afghanistan isn t going away. officials want to focus on domestic issues but they recognize afghanistan is still a very real issue on their plates. as one house democrat told me, if they think this is leaving, they re kidding themselves. september 14th, secretary of state antony blinken is set to testify. thank you, phil mattingly.
Say the house will wait to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure until the senate has also passed that larger $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. that could take some weeks though. right now they re all on recess, but the senate has been given a september 15th deadline. that s when they have to have the top line numbers filled in with actual policy written down, but that s, again, going to take some time for it to work itself through in the senate. a balancing act there to for majority leader chuck schumer, but once it gets to the house you have moderate democrats saying that they won t vote for the larger infrastructure bill unless they can vote first on the bipartisan hard infrastructure bill, and then to the same token on the other side of the political seesaw you have progressive democrats saying they won t vote for the bipartisan bill if the reconciliation bill with the $3.5 trillion chock full of progressive policy ideals isn t waited on. so a real push and pull for the