the white house, though, is also known as the people's house, and so that really means the white house grounds are the people's grounds. and if you start to think about it that way, it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically, suburban homes, mine included, have a more formal or dressy front lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the north portico facing pennsylvania avenue, and a more private, hess formal backyard -- less formal backyard. that's the larger south grounds looking down toward the washington monument. and that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable? and i don't -- you're an historian, i'm a journalist. neither one of us is a politician. but first ladies, especially in the modern era, they want to go around changing things, there's resistance to that. >> there is. i think it's fair to say that people have an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation. but hopefully as the history of that site, which i j

the houses here, beautiful, but the golden outside house stuff is tough. oh. as a kid, i didn't really understand how segregated the city was because i never left my areas. one time. my dad to my god, i was house for a week. is like literally right outside the city. and he had a nice apartment, complex pool every day, and brilliant people, a decent car. it wasn't loud at night, it was fun. but when i got back to the city, they got evicted. my dad sent us somewhere for a week just to get the house together. i've moved too many times to count. i've lived in so many neighborhoods. it doesn't allow you to gauge what is normal his neighborhood still pretty much like the same. a lot of these out of the vegas, we used to go all behind them in up in him. almost like it's ready to go in and find everything or left before they got evicted. you know, a jack black, some foreign over some like the the community didn't feel it does now you see earlier vacancy whose kids is just having fun. baltimore is a microcosm of many urban areas in america. and it is like dickens would

the subsequent legislation opened up housing, housing vouchers. in the latest round, the american rescue plan, infrastructure was included but it wasn't housing. we are able to address some of the water issues and sanitation issues with the rescue act funding and get to some of the housing vouchers and housing assistance through some of the other legislation. it's all incredibly helpful. i think it serves as a model for putting out discretionary money. but the other side of that is opening the options for tribes to be able to address the dramatic infrastructure needs that have come out during the pandemic and really showcased what deficiency in infrastructure, what the real impacts are. the marshall plan idea is great. the discretionary funding is great. we are looking forward to addressing some of the infrastructure needs. we are also looking forward to further support through infrastructure funding to be able to open that discretionary funding up to address all of these needs. tying hands on discretionary money may not be the best use for addres

the clerk: house calendar number 33. house resolution 601. resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill, h.r. 4, to amend the voting rights act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the act, and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. the amendment printed in the report of the committee on the amendment printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to final passage without intervening motion except one, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the judiciary or their respective designees, and two,

we also have a wash house. direct access to that spring water to wash clothes, a meat house where they are going to store a lot of products like bacon, sausage, ham. we have a produce shed which is where you're going to store wood so it stays dry. but also vegetables and fruits are harvesting from your land. we have a tobacco barn's not going to be a huge cash crop. turkeys and your chickens the very german influence barn you'll be thrashing your wheat and your hay. storing that grain and storing your animals for the wintertime. typically men and boys will be out in the field taking care of that major cash crop. they will be in charge of swabbing those animals and some heavy work with animals. they'll be in charge of cooking, mending, washing clothes. they will feed the animals, men will be the ones who take that major cash crop of wheat to the market, to the mill to have it sold. they will be going to town to have those products appraised and get money for the family. men like tools for the farm, repair tools,

guest: that gets to a larger issue, that rental housing and housing issue is dealing with in general.ousing affordability is a category of issues we place this topic into. we have not been building enough rental housing or housing generally for a long time to meet the needs, and it is basic economics. not enough supply and a whole lot of demand and your prices will go up. that is what is happening and has been for years, long before covid. covid has made this worse certainly, so the economics are we need to build more housing, more rental housing, at all price points, almost every community in the country. everybody has a different very in level of impact but that is where we need to focus and a whole level of advocacy's we are working on, supporting legislation on the hill and efforts locally to bring down barriers to new housing, get more supplying to the market, and that is what will bring rents down. that is what we need to focus those efforts long term. we need to keep our eye on the long-term. host: this is jan in pennsylvania, a renter, hello. caller: hi. i wanted to say a lot

from the trump white house felt? >> i i haven't spent that much time in the biden white house but i got some more questions about this. i will say i think it's hard, it's just as hard to cover trump as it is to cover biden. people think in a way like covering trump is kind of this easy pickings, there's so many things, details to learn and things to collect but the problem with covering trump was that so much of it wasn't reliable or coming from reliable narrators here. i mentioned my kind of long newspaper career, whether it was any of these county commission meeting for school board meetings or state legislative committee hearings, like never have been anywhere except the trump white house where eight people could go into a meeting and 12 versions of that what happened in that meeting emerged afterwards. to understand what is happening behind the scenes you needed to talk to almost everybody who was in the room to have an understanding of what happened. there were so many rivalries, so many, i mean trump came up in

the house will be order. rep. jackson: a then i niced several of them were standi in front of the doors and ty had their weapons out. i was just like, what going on? i had a colleague sitting next to me, and if you rememberwe had already had several bomb threats in the house offices earlier at day. my staff had already been evacuated. my colleague said it is probably a bomb teat. i saido, if it was a bomb that, they wouldot be locking us inside the chamber with people with their weapons on the inside. i knew from my time at the white house and in the military as ll that if -- that there was somebody in the building that shouldn't be in theuilding, it was pretty obvus to me at that point. shortly after that, what i heard was like boom, boom, boom. you could hear it at a distance. it sounded like it was pretty far away, but not really. you could hear a lot of yelling, a lot of commotion, and i knew what that was. i knew it was teargas being deployed. just a few minutes after that, a few seconds after that, you saw t

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we also benefited from the state's housing program and finally from our local housing accelerate fund. i also want to thank at some point, this was considered an inclusionary housing development. and, finally, i want to introduce and thank charmine curtis or curtis development. she's our partner who's been with us from the beginning. she pulled out all the stops last year. she and i were working hard, hustling to secure the state funding that brought us to this point in time. thanks to her efforts, we can finally see that this building will be built and in two years, we will welcome residents to their new homes. i'd like to introduce charmine curtis. >> good morning everybody. it's so great to see everybody here and thank you so much for those kind words. we have worked so long and worked so hard to get to this moment. and i'm here to tell you how sweet it is. it took us a minute but we ade it. and it's important to acknowledge all the love and sweat that brought us to this moment. a testament to perseverance and down right doggedness. largely on the part of kb and myself who would ne

room in the house. he always have a peat fire burning day and night all year round so that is where everyone is. then behind it is the shop. that is also the boy's bedroom. they would have a mattress on the floor where they would sleep read the loom is in there too so they would take over the weaving to stay close to their work. the weaving process is one of those things, i'm sure if it's a very good year for the trades they might have hired some weavers to take care of that. or maybe some irish laborers to work in the field so you could concentrate on the weaving. of course a lot of it would take place in the wintertime. especially for the laborers, that is the only way they could make money in the wintertime so they would have year-round income. of course northern ireland you have lots of rain. even though it is raining you are not insight weaving because you have too much farm work to do. he would leave at night after supper. economically at the time he would say he was a strong farmer. he was a midl

we have been saying to house leadership, reconvene the house.house rules committeeame here to the steps, addressethe crowd, and he said the rules committee are waiting to come backnd do thwork. he said we wou be back in a nanosend if we hear we have 218 votes. so they are ready. we are saying reconvene us, let's do the work to make sure we get t whip count aright and then come back and let us vote. we are also saying to the white house and cdc, give us a moratorium, the eviction moratorium. we are asking the president to pen the executive order. if there is a court challenge after that, we can deal with the courts. that challenge can be dealt with. in the meantime, while that is happening, in the house, we can work on getting the bill that chairwoman maxine waters that introduced, which has a moratorium until september 31. amy: what about pelosi calling on t cdc to extend the moratorium? rep. bush: we have to use everything we can. that was the route that she chose. we are saying cdc, white house, even the senate. we were all elected to serve th

we are going to focus on housing. during the pandemic, you could look anywhere in the country and find soaring housing prices. existing home sales data, july come arising for a second month, indicating actually that housing demand we were worried about may not be the issue at the moment. taylor: indeed. that was some of the actual strongly, data we got this morning. total existing home sales, you are up 2% in july. the median home price fell to just 359,000. you were down about $3000. year-over-year, up about 18%. if you think about some of the rates in blue that were low, that makes it affordable for lending, pushes up the price. in white, you have the home sales, real strength in the pandemic. olivia rockman has been covering the pandemic for bloomberg news. what are you thinking about low rates, affordability, then of course inventory and supply? olivia: it does seem like from the standpoint of existing homes, that the supply improvement in july is what helped improve sales more generally. there were 1.3 million ho

as well as house foreign affairs.on foreign affairs, ample evidence this thing, that covid-19 virus was genetically modified and engineered in china at the wuhan lab and it did leak, bombshell stuff. what do you say? >> yeah, liz, thanks for having me on the show and thanks for letting us talk about this. it is very important to let the world know there is no way this wasn't genetically modified and created in a lab. probably the most damning evidence is the cgg, double code, the sequence in the genetic material that makes it so deadly and transmissible. it would have required the same bat to get two viruses simultaneously, and interestingly enough both viruses infect different species of bats. so it is impossible for that to have occurred in nature there are lots of other reasons. go ahead. elizabeth: and the u.s. funded it, right? the u.s. funded gain of function research, right? >> -- lab. we certainly funded some of the research at the lab. funds are fungible. i asked dr. fauci that when we had him in front of the

housing stock. needs and travelers, resources to address the problem have declined will rapidly and other federal housing programs. tens of thousands of new units are needed, thousands of existing units fell. the simple fact is, $2,000,000,500 of additional new funding is needed if these conditions are going to be addressed. give especially to build. the urban institute in 2017 art that more is needed to require the capacity to build housing and other related infrastructure construction on this scale. they are prepared to quickly gear up to build the social number of new units. this will help tribes in alaska be able to generate for their communities, the country post-pandemic with recovery just as they did successfully 10 years ago after the great recession. thank you for this time to testify. >> thank you very much to all of our panelists. we will begin with a round of five minutes questions good -- questions. i will start with mr. shepherd, which is the unique challenge we have on -- with housing

house that mr. moulton will vote yes on s. 325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. hey lee of the 11th -- stevens of the 11th district of michigan, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. stevens will vote aye on s. 325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman seek reck necessary? >> as the member designated by ms. stefanik of new york, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. stefanik will vote yea on s. 325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from oregon seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. blumenauer of oregon, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. blumenauer will vote yes on s.325. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. gomez, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the hou

it is a beautiful house. i have so loved every time i visit i always get to see something new and caleb gives wonderful has so much knowledge, and i know that the docents have so much knowledge. so so please do go visit them. so with that yeah. yeah with that. i guess i will go ahead and say goodbye. so thank you again for joining us and i hope to talk about elizabeth again soon. weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast every saturday american history tv documents america's story and on sundays book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors funding for c-span 2 comes from these television companies and more including comcast. are you think this is just a community center? no, it's way more than that comcast is partnering with a thousand community centers to create wi-fi enabled lifts. so students from low-income families can get the tools. they need to be ready for anything. comcast along with these television companies support c-span 2 as a public service this week we're looking back to

you need both houses to act. again, i think this is a matter of whether there is support in caucuses to do that. that is a challenge. even the most passionate advocates who are out there, and we certainly stand by them and support their same objective of extending the eviction moratorium can not do it on , their own. we certainly would like to see legislation. the president would love to sign that into law that as you said, would require both houses of congress. reporter: last question, sorry. you mentioned texas. that's the state that is being touted as not just number one, but also they have the best system. the way that it's been happening is just going straight to landlords and people who own homes and are renting it out. is that what other states should be doing? should they be copying texas in how they disperse these funds? -- disburse these funds? sec. psaki: different approaches are going to work for different states. but i do think if texas can do it, if virginia can do it, then other states can do it as

i believe it's going to pass the house this week. so it's not about the house. it really is about the senate. of course i have always said that we need to get rid of the filibuster. hr-1 also passed the house. this gets dark money out of politics along with other efforts to address voter suppression. so we have got to understand, we have the house, we have the senate and we have the white house. and so it's going to be the power of the people. it's going to be the pressure. it's going to be the outside movements that's going to get the senate to act so that we can restore our voting rights and stop these voter suppression laws. this is a real test of our democracy. and those who believe in democracy in the senate will support both bills. reverend al, can i just take a minute to wish reverend jesse jackson and mrs. jacqueline jackson -- >> oh, yeah. >> -- a speedy recovery. heartfelt prayers. and a heck of a lot of love from myself and from my congressional district, the 13th congressional district that includes oakland and berkeley. for a speedy recovery. >> abs

so we pass the law in 1968, and the fair housing it proclaimed that fair housing for all. all human beings is now a part of the american way of life. the me the mandate, the government given to nations prevent discrimination, but actually affirmatively go out and say, how do we desegregate america? the government betrays that policy. ah, i mind as i traveled across the country that whether we're talking about the white americans or people who may be robot and other minority groups like the mexican americans, the rest just like the back americans. what everybody wants as an equal chance to have a piece of the action at the federal government has never enforce the fair housing act in that state. and local governments do not enforce the turnaround. again, you know, you can have federal policy, but if the local administration of these policies that often miss the black people received discriminatory treatment. hello, my name is tyrone washington. i'm calling about the apartment on park street, not available. yes. hello, my name is graham, wellington, i'm calling about the apar

house. lawmakers working on that budget resolution, voting rights legislation and the senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill. live house coverage here on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] nati, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend

the white house's issued updates about covid emergency relief -- the white house has issued updates but emergency -- covid -- about emergency covid relief. host: matthew is next, in new york. caller: goodman. -- good morning. i could remember when i installed the interstate highway system. we were the golden shining light, the beacon of all of the world. 70 years later, there is supposed to be no upkeep? the technology changes all of the time. the republicans want to know how you plan on paying for it? isn't that what our taxes are supposed to be used for? if that increases taxes on the rich, isn't that ok? if they can go to a writing for space, cannot they pay for infrastructure -- if they can go joy riding in space, can they not pay for infrastructure? why cannot we take existing tax laws and use them? make all of those deadbeats that have not paid taxes finally pay them? republicans are like you cannot do that either. host: what is your question for our guests please? caller: what are our options? host: to his point, let us say the hundred billion dollars that have been set aside for

guest: the task force was formed from the house, speaker pelosi. they requested assistance in providing a security review of the capitol. with the perspective that the more in-depth commission and/or committees would be formed inside the capitol from the house and senate to dig into who did what, when and how. what they wanted was an immediate review of the operational procedures, training and in operability and security of the capitol. so that immediate steps could be taken to secure the capitol prior to what happened on the sixth to have the capitol open back up to the public. we spent six weeks, myself and 16 others, members of the task force, we call ourselves tax force -- task force 16. we report back to the house in the process of creating that report area we went -- report. we went into dialogue that went into equities for security of the capitol in conjunction with capitol police, which we engaged all members of capitol police force as well as the capitol police themselves and making our assessment. that report concluded a 12 page exec at o

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he sneaks in and out of the house.e takes electricity from a socket in the hallway, and he has just avoided us all together. host: sorry to hear that. it sounds like a fairly untenable situation. jenny schuetz, any thoughts on that? guest: we are running up into the problem that some landlords do not want to keep the tenant in the property anymore. they are frustrated, as this caller was, they have not been receiving rent. in some cases these are tenants who might be disturbing other people in the building, and the landlord to are at the end of their patients and just want the tenant out. the programs that require the landlord to say they want evict the tenant for some time have been a problem for getting money out the door because the rental assistance won't go out unless there is landlord cooperation. in some cases, we need to accept is the current situation will not last, provide the renter with security deposits, first month's rent, to move into a new place and let people sort things out into new places to live. we

today at the white house dr. anthony fauci gave a brief scientific briefing on monoclonal antibody treatment. this treatment for people who have covid and if you can get this treatment to people in time, it can reduce their chances of having to be hospitalized by 70 to 85%. it's an astonishingly effective treatment approved for use by the nih. this is not one of those snake oil cures, not one of those quack cures that you read about on facebook. this is actually an nih approved treatment. even in states where vaccine uptake has been terrible, the distribution of monoclonal antibody treatment has ramped up. the federal government is pushing out more of this and it's turning out to be a safety net option to try to save the hospitals. not only to save lives but to save the hospitals to try to keep infected people from getting sick and having to be hospitalized. we are seeing big increases in the use of these monoclonal antibody treatments in states like alabama, mississippi and florida, so many of these deep red sta

this is the new normal for house hunting. paul: not getting the house. >> not getting the house. paul: so he's renting instead but for disabled vietnam vet gary wiltermood, even renting is next to impossible. he's lived in a house at the edge of a trailer parkor 15 years and the owners want him out. >> they've tried every maneuver to get me out of there. they can put in like four or five apartment places in the property that i'm on. paul: but other boise rentals are out of reach. >> i'm pced out of the market. i can't find a place. i'm so desperate, i don't know what to do. paul: as wiltermood's lawyer, brian stevens puts it. >> if you're low income person, it's a hard time to be in boise. paul: there are signs of cooling off in recent weeks. inventory is up and developers are scrambling to build more but as always happens while cities grow, neighborhoods gentrify, there will be heart rending losers like gary wiltermood. >> there's a statement, some gave all, some still give, on my vietnam sticker. well, i gave my life for this country and this is how i end up. paul: brian canke

to the house of representatives. ford was highly respected as the house republican leader. he was also a very longtime friend and supporter of nixon. ford is appointed vice president. as the battle over the tapes escalates, federal judge john sirika orders nixon to hand over the tapes. the court of appeals agrees with that saying that the judge at a minimum is allowed to listen to them in camera, in the privacy of his chambers, to determine if there really are any national security issues involved with them. the white house counters with what they call the stennis proposal. the senator was at this time a 71-year-old senator from mississippi who had hearing aides. he had hearing problems. he had been shot in a burglary attempt. the plan was that he was the only person who was going to be allowed to listen to the tapes. cox would then get summaries of the tapes. nothing else. it was a bold move. nixon was basically going for broke here. i interviewed stennis' doctor. he told me that the senator was on heavy doses of codeine at this time because of the shooting in the burglary

in the white house.et's listen to it. . from the early days of our administration, nancy has been intentionally involved in the ever to fight drug abuse. her personal observations and efforts have given her such dramatic insights that i wanted her to share them with you this evening. nancy? nancy: thank you. as a mother, i always thought of september as a special month. a time where they can go fill those restless mind was so much has happened over these last few years. so much to shift the foundations of all we know and all we believe today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country and no one is safe from it. one of the things one learns when reading your book is that the irony is that even though she was promoting just say no, she had an issue with prescription drugs. karen: that is correct. you have to go back to the 1950's. she had this 19 -- this very anxious personality. very tightly wound. when women would go to doctors back then, the doctors would hand them a sedative. they had

that means house and senate. at the beginning of this process that this bipartisan deal, if it even survives the senate, the only chance that it has at passing the house is if the house passes the senate bill and if the senate passes the house bill, which is largely in reconciliation. so we can't just have one body driving the entire legislative agenda for the country and, frankly, 20 senators that -- within that one body. so we need a reconciliation bill if this bipartisan bill -- if we want this bipartisan bill to pass. >> i know the infrastructure deal they're talking about -- manchin said they're going to introduce it today, bring up the language -- is smaller than you wanted and your fellow progressives wanted. it includes funding for electric vehicle charging stations, clean water, broadband. when it comes before the house as it looks like will happen, will you vote for it? >> we have to hold on to that bargain. if there is not a reconciliation bill in the house and if the senate does not pass a reconciliat

today, the house of representatives did just that. today's vote in the house allowed them to consider my build back better agenda, a broad framework to make housing more affordable, bring down the cost of prescription drugs by giving medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for drugs, make elder care more affordable, provide two years of free universal high quality pre-k, and two years of free community college, provide clean energy tax credits, continue to give the middle-class families the well-deserved tax cut for daycare and healthcare that they deserve, allowing a lot of women to get back to work primarily, and provide significant monthly tax cuts for working families with children through the childcare tax credit. these investments are going to lower out of pocket expenses for families, and not just give them a little more breathing room. in addition, we're going to make a long overdue, much-needed investments in basic hard infrastructure of this nation. this scenario where we have broad bipartisan agreement to invest in our

house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. august 24, 2021. i hereby appoint the honorable terry a. sewell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben would you pray with me. holy god, we appeal to you this afternoon that by your blessing this day would prove fruitful. nothing this day is as we planned it. not only have our schedules been upended, but the world itself has turned upside-down. we scramble to get things done and make things right, but with so much at stake and the issues so complex, our efforts seem desperate and futile. we pray, therefore, that you who know our wanderings through this great wilderness would bless your people were your guidance on this day. provide rescue, shelter, and peace to those whose very lives are endangered by anarchy and violen

but at least let's, the democrats, house, senate, and white house, be the party that keeps people inir homes. >> i do want to point out, though, this is something we knew was coming for a long time. and yet, it's only gotten to kind of attention and congressional folk us from leaders and the like recently. i mean, really, is there blame to put on congress for letting it get to this point where it was all of a sudden everybody was under the gun with so little time left? >> well, we have been raising this for months. we have been raising this and the student debt moratorium for months. and because the white house has the power to do this, the administration has the power to do these things, we think it makes a lot more sense for the administration to do it. because, obviously, you know what the margins are like in congress. so the white house did not say that they were not going to do the eviction moratorium until thursday. that was when that statement came out. i want to be clear that we have been working on this for months. but, of course, we are going to take the -- you know, the mo

the house rejected that argument. what happens is gallegos is left to have his speeches translated into english and read by the clerk of the house or to have members help him on the floor. again, the language barrier isn't the only impediment. he doesn't serve on a committee. he has to lobby other members to help him push legislation. he wins election again in 1855, but this election is contested by another hispanic from new mexico who had run against him, miguel otero. that contested election really kind of opens a window onto what's happening in new mexico politics in the 19th century, because gallegos really was part of a dock nant faction of shis span i don'ts in the district who favored kind of the receding spanish system. they had latched on -- they had kind of gained revolutionary ar dur during the mexican revolution. that was culturally and politically where they were coming from. the other side was represented by otero who was from a business-oriented, the rico class. that class tended to align with the ameri

the government shutdown i remember was when you guys controls the house, senate, and white house and shut it down. that is a first in history. on infrastructure, one of the things joe biden's predecessor said when he was campaigning was he wanted to do some begun infrastructure. and yet republicans did not want to work with us on anything meaningful. it is only on infrastructure weeks. how insulting to the american people, infrastructure weeks. we now have an infrastructure bill that has bipartisan support in the senate. i expect when it comes to the floor there will be some republicans who support it. host: more on these negotiations happening behind the scenes within the democratic party. joining us is scott wong from the hill to tell us about it. let's begin with what was supposed to happen yesterday. guest: what was supposed to happen was a procedural vote to advance joe biden's -- key elements of joe biden's domestic agenda forward. what nancy pelosi had done was to package three items of that agenda, the john lewis voting rights bill, the 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure pack