inflation reduction act after a republican amendment in the vote-a-rama past with democrats like kristen sinema, voting in favor of it. this is making the legislative marathon even longer as republicans continue to try to make this process as painful as possible. democrats are painting the eventual expected passage of the bill as a major victory, hailing what is in it for the american people. vote after vote after vote we have done this with no sleep 11 hours straight. why? because we know this bill is finally going to do something about climate change. lift the ban on negotiating less expensive drugs under medicare. and then as the name of the bill says, bring inflation down by 305 billion dollars a deficit reduction. oil need 50 votes. we don t need 60 we don t need any republican votes to do something significant for working families in this country. unfortunately, for fairly well known reasons we have conservative democrats. we couldn t get the 50 votes that we need r
We havent seen any members of congress get off. We have seen the ten buses or so brought in by security. They have the bottom Luggage Department open. It appears they are open. Can you come down here. We are going to show you a picture on an i phone on a 20second delay. It does look like some members are starting to get off of the amtrak train. This is the first time that we will have seen them. Theyre definitely unloading, it looks like big boxes or crates or something. Youll see it in the distance. Again, this is an i phone picture we are transmitting because all of our crews are in route. We are getting our first look now as people walking off on their own from this train. Theyre at the amtrak station in charlottesville. And we understand that there are a lot more Capitol Police reinforcements with vehicles and
buss that are on their way. The responders right now that were seeing are the local charlottesville police, the Virginia State police and some Capitol Police. On the ground,
be touting but you passed because that means you can govern. certainly, throughout this congress, and i think democrats honestly raised expectations too high. they didn t have the votes to pass sweeping tax cut legislation. they re not repealing the trump tax law, for instance. they were able to finally unite around a big deal. o they passed infrastructure bills, chips bill recently. this is the focus. they needed to pass some kind of health care bill. there is patrician prescription drug language there. they pass the covid bill, but they needed something else on health care. they got. it bob, a few would stand by. liz smith, standby for me as well. i m bringing in senator chris coons of delaware. he has come to our camera. after 24 hours or so of hardware, that you are awake! we appreciate you joining us! your kind of awake? [laughs] talk to me about this moment, senator. it is an incredible moment of accomplishment.
It took all of two minutes Tuesday for state Sen. Travis Holdman, R-Markle, to announce his intent to eviscerate the tax cut provisions from the legislation and receive committee approval
right here on the fox news channel. you can be sure the president will certainly talk about the historic success that he has had over the last two years. and the economy is on fire. and that is a direct result from this president getting rid of regulations, pushing through the tax cut legislation, wages are up. unemployment is down. you are going to continue to sight president push for policies that help continue the economic boom. you are also going to seat president call on congress and say, look, we can either work together and get great things done or we can fight each other and get nothing done. steve: in other words, are you going to help or do i have to do this by myself? ever since 1982, and if you are old enough you remember that terrible crash in washington, d.c. when the air florida plane crashed on the 14th street bridge. a guy who worked for the congressional budget office, lenny shut neck was watching from the bank and saw a