. >> i'll talk to republican senator bill cassidy who voted to convict at mr.mp's second impeachment trial about his party's future. >>> border crisis. more than 10,000 haitian migrants huddled at the u.s./mexico country. >> basically third world country conditions. >> that bad? >> that bad. you can't imagine. >> the u.s. planning deportation flights as early as today. >>> joining me are jeff mason, maria teresa kumar and anna palmer, founder of punch bowl news. welcome to sunday it's "meet the press." . >>> good sunday morning. could our fight against the coronavirus turn into our latest forever war? the war we thought we were winning at the beginning of the summer has been complicated by a more resilient named delta and the reluctance by many to get vaccinated. there was mixed messaging about third shots or booster shots. all this comes amid the sobering nudes that the seven-day average of deaths topped 2,000. the number of cases has slowed in recent weeks a hopeful sign that maybe the death rate will soon fall as well. still the mixed messages threatening th

. >> i'll talk to republican senator bill cassidy who voted to convict at mr. trump's second impeachment trial about his party's future. >>> another border crisis. more than 10,000 haitian migrants huddled in an unsanitary tent city at the u.s./mexico border. >> basically third world country conditions. >> that bad? >> that bad. you can't imagine. >> the u.s. planning deportation flights as early as today. joining me for insight and analysis, white house correspondent for reuters, jeff mason, maria teresa kumar president and veo of voto latino, rich lowellry from the "national review" and anna palmer for "punchbowl news." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. could our viet against the coronavirus turn into our latest forever war? the war we thought we were winning at the beginning of the summer has been complicated by a more resilient enemy named delta and the reluctance of millions to get vaccinated. there's been cows fooging m

view is, we're going to focus on this administration and the future. >> joining me is senator bill cassidya, one of the seven republican senators who voted to impeach president trump at his second impeachment trial. senator cassidy, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you for having me. >> let me start with anthony gonzalez's retirement. him walking away from politics, is that good or bad for the republican party? >> you know, anthony is choosing his personal priorities. you read his statement. it stands for itself. you have a broader question there, do republicans continue to relate gait 2020 or do we look forward with a positive agenda. if we relitigate 2020 over and over again, it won't change the result in 2020, but we're sure to lose in 2024. on the other hand, if we have a positive agenda which addresses the fact that the biden administration is in disarray, whether it's inflation, the border, afghanistan, then the country will win and we'll win. but if we choose to be bullied, we'll lose. >> you agree with congressman gonzalez who calls donald trump a cancer for the country?

bill. i want to put the question i put to senator cassidy and former congressman richmond. this put both bills in jeopardy? >> i hope not. we definitely need the infrastructure bill. i was with the progressives trying to have what i call a two-track strategy. ida, which hit my folks at home, hit me in d.c. and hit my buddy over here. ida was a destructive you know what. get that infrastructure bill. we need 21st century infrastructure like yesterday. >> even if it costs -- >> no. look, what is the cost? we need to get the infrastructure bill done and then we also need to go back and say to mr. manchin who has put a strategic pause on the so-called reconciliation bill, begin the negotiation. we can do two things simultaneously. we can walk and chew gum. >> that's the debate. chris christie, what is joe manchin doing here? is he saying i'm never going to vote for it or is he saying i'm getting leverage? >> he's saying what he's been saying all along. $3.5 trillion is too much. he's not saying he'll never vote for any bill. that's not what i'm hearing. i'm hearing him say if it

bill cassidy joins us from baton rouge. thanks for being with us.d you did a flyover of some of the hard-hit areas of the state. what did you see that may not necessarily translate? >> he flew over a place called laplace. it's the first area if you go past lake pontchartrain. there was flooding of the whole community. you don't see the ground. just seawater. lots of wind damage. the less expensive the housing, the more damage. trailer parks, just scattered all over the place, but nicer neighborhoods, as well. as well as wind damage to some structures, but even going through new orleans, there isn't damage, but there weren't lights either. in the northern parishes, there was flooding all through those parishes, not every place but around lake pontchartrain, other areas that were still rising at the time. >> no power, no running water. what are we being told about when those systems will be back up? >> as far as i know, they are not committed to a date to getting them back up. can a generator continuedo work f all the things a hospital needs it for. i

you heard from senator bill cassidy. go to chad pergram on capitol hill. >> democrats are using the storm to justify their push for the infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion billion. it's loaded with environmental provisions. >> this bill will end years of gridlock. make us more resilient to the kinds of devastating impacts from extreme weather we're seeing many so many parts of the country. >> bipartisan members of the louisiana delegation asked for more money to help cover the hurricane damage. troy carter was driving with the president to make the pitch for hurricane relief and tie hurricane aid to the other bills. >> you get caught up in the semantics of calling it hard or soft infrastructure. it's people. it's making louisiana and americans lives better. >> conservatives want to help with disaster aid but may not like other things hooked to the big bills like the debt ceiling. >> it puts members in a bind if they vote no, they will be criticized for opposed urgent funding for hurricanes. >> democrat joe manchin

back in louisiana senator bill cassidy tells abc news the infrastructure bill being considered by congress includes billions of dollars to harden the electric grid. money he says is much needed. >> right now four parishes in which there's no electricity unless it's provided by a generator. they are the folks we have to be concerned about. >> as for the remnants of ida and flooding threat in the northeast we'll get the accuweather forecast in a few moments. >>> the governor of texas expected to sign an election law which would ban drive-through and 24-hour voting and impose an i.d. voting requirement by mail. democrats call it voter suppression. republicans say it will protect the integrity of elections. >>> turning to the pandemic, a school district in texas stopped in-person learning after two teachers died from covid during the first week of classes. about 7,500 public schoolteachers have tested positive. the governor banned school districts from imposing mask mandates. meanwhile in florida the state is withholding the salaries of school board members who enforce mask mandates despite a

we have senator bill cassidy the beatable state of louisiana, republican.ating in the game tonight but it's very different on the field than it has been where you're standing right now. any bridges closing in on or how would you describe things? >> are you speaking of the game or speaking about the debt ceiling. neil: i'm speaking about the latter, whether the game might spill over into getting something done. >> what can i say about the debt ceiling democrats control the ability to get the debt ceiling past they control the house, the senate and the white house, they could do it without a single republican vote. , and of study, the democrat and chair of the budget committee now said that they wanted to suspend the debt ceiling as opposed to raise it because if they raised it they would have to reveal to america people how much they truly help to spend in the reconciliation bill. if you will communication malpractice, i'm hoping one that they revealed to the american people how much they hope to spend and then they have the power to raise it, they should do

> what president biden's decision to withdraw from afghanistan did forget us louisiana senator bill cassidy says the bipartisan infrastructure bill already includes some mitigation measures and says the country can't afford the second bills high price tag. >> but president biden and most democrats say the cost of not fighting climate change is much greater reporting in washington. alexandra limon. >> time for another check of our weather forecast here on the west coast. dave spahr has got a little bit more detail on the warming trend. we're continuing to see over the next couple of yeah. going to see it today and to tomorrow now there's a little wrinkle in here that hra cost us a couple degrees. but it's more cosmetic than anything else. probably going to be some scattered clouds going on for tonight. that man rob us a little bit of a way of fog. it's going to aloft, unfortunately to bring any rain with any of that. but the thing we look out for all of this is the instability factor that is problematic. if that were to cause some instability. we could get some of that old fashioned dry ligh

it will be hard for senator bill cassidy of louisiana to not want to go on board with some parts of theinfrastructure. the money that didn't make it into bipartisan infrastructure about climate and clean energy and resiliency of these coastal lines, potentially they want to -- i cannot say republicans putting their name on anything that has massive tax hikes. lisa: how much will this be the focus versus the international focus. how does he coordinate with the shift back to domestic after the aftermath of afghanistan? >> you had white house aides brief democratic senate aides about the debt ceiling. this will be another massive show down. you already see the white house wanting to move forward to discuss the -- the domestic agenda. they have tons of teams in the white house presenting the president with what his next item needs to be. i imagine the white house isn't -- is excited to move forward to leaving afghanistan behind in terms of continuous press questions and move toward infrastructure. the problem is, there will be hearings on this and we still have americans in afghanistan that

> what president biden's decision to withdraw from afghanistan did forget us louisiana senator bill cassidy says the bipartisan infrastructure bill already includes some mitigation measures and says the country can't afford the second bills high price tag. >> but president biden and most democrats say the cost of not fighting climate change is much greater reporting in washington. alexandra le mon. >> the state of new york has already taken a couple of steps to try to address the impacts of climate change. more than 53 million dollars in funding has now been approved to help 9 communities around the state to improve drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. this is after ida caused widespread flooding in the northeast and the southeast as well. governor. of new york. kathy hochul says officials need to be prepared for more flooding in the future. >> this is not unusual anymore. anyone who says it's once in a century once in 500 years. i don't i'm not buying. trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from their 1990 levels by 20, 30. and for your help tonight, top government healt

lisa: senator bill cassidy came out to talk about hurricane ida, the fortified levees, and how importantwas the finance additional work just like that. how much of that is indicative of a sea change in the republican party to push more and get at least a bipartisan bill across the line can be more open to additional spending? >> on hard infrastructure there is clearly bipartisan support and this probably doubles down on that instance in which at least the infrastructure improvements in new orleans made sense hurricane katrina showed direct value. there were obviously problems with the electrical grid compared to katrina, but that is never really been the challenge with the infrastructure bill or anything else on the democrats agenda. there is clear support for the hard infrastructure in the senate has already passed that. the big question around getting this done is everything else the democrats want to do, do they have time to do that? this is sort of the icing on the cake in terms of congressional support for physical infrastructure. lisa: i want to throw you a curveball, i want to tal

> what president biden's decision to withdraw from afghanistan did forget us louisiana senator bill cassidyays the bipartisan infrastructure bill already includes some mitigation measures and says the country can't afford the second bills high price tag. >> but president biden and most democrats say the cost of not fighting climate change is much greater reporting in washington. alexandra le mon. still ahead here tonight, an abortion law texas gets praise and criticism whites. >> states taking the same approach couldn't run into some legal challenges. boost and cricket charge you more for unlimited 5g. metro doesn't. introducing the big 5g upgrade. just twenty-five bucks a month gets you unlimited 5g and a free 5g smartphone. that's half the price... ...for one line of unlimited 5g smartphone data ...plus a free samsung galaxy 5g when you switch and trade-in. all with the power of the t-mobile 5g network. rule your day with 5g. only at metro by t-mobile. >> for your local election headquarters. we are just 10 days away until californians will decide if governor gavin newsome will stay or go

that hurricane ida didn't care whether you are republican or democrat one of the lead sponsors is bill cassidyo has been urging his colleagues to get onboard as well highlighting $2.6 billion for pro jukts in states like like louisiana that frequently get by hurricanes over 1,600 miles were out of commission yesterday there's also money to restore natural infrastructure like louisiana's coastal wetlands and barrier islands. >> you envision this giant wall of water pushing in across the coastline of the state and further inland we are evaluating ways to mitigate that and one of the things we've seen are wetlands to buffer communities close to the coastline. >> reporter: president biden will view the damage up close tomorrow and try to build support for more money >> it seems like one of the things we're learning apart from the need for additional infrastructure is these storms not only are becoming bigger and more frequent but may impact where people actually can live in the future, whether they are able to live in the low lansdowne there on the mississippi delta or on the coast, the carolina c

>> well, i like bill cassidy.e was a great partner on the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but on this one senator cassidy is not right. all we're doing with raising the debt ceiling, is we're simply saying the united states government is going to go ahead and honor the payments we've already made. we put all this on the credit card, the $5 trillion under president trump, a lot of that i voted for because it was covid relief, but that is all retroactive, retrospective looking. the infrastructure bill that we're talking about, any prospective legislation, that will have to be dealt with at a future debt ceiling. as a matter of fact, andrea, what we should have done and mcconnell even suggested this, leader mcconnell during trump, is we should get rid of this legal fiction that somehow after we've committed dollars we have to come back and in effect sign off on it. that's a crazy washington-imposed fiction that really puts us in a very difficult place. >> senator mark warner, thank you so muc

so what senator bill cassidy, senator bill cassidy what he was saying he, hasn't seen the reconciliation language at all there is a framework, $3.5 trillion for the spending. only bipartisan infrastructure bill has that language. it is attached to it. that continuing resolution again, the white house doesn't have specific language. they would want a short-term bill on top of all that spending in order to get more out there. again republicans saying hey, where is the language? back to you. neil: thank you, my friend, very much. edward lawrence following that. just as edward is wrapping up, janet yellen is out wires saying the u.s. treasury may run out of cash in october. you know they're robbing peter to pay paul because we technically hit the debt ceiling in the end of july but much, american families feel with this when they're up against the wall when it comes to finances, prioritize, bill, pay mortgage, rent first. let a credit card bill slide. that is essentially what the u.s. government does only on steroids to the tune of trillions of dollars. we'll get into that in just a second.

senator bill cassidy was in this area taking a tour of the damage today.aces like lafitte begin to rebuild, they need to think about the future and the next storm that might hit. >> under the national flood insurance program they would pay to elevate homes. but why not instead of replacing a gutted home, why not just rebuild new with new construction on top after elevation? same expense, but you end up with something to code for future hurricanes. reporter: the hum of generators is something we're getting used to in these areas. i don't know if you hear it in the home behind me? we heard from the jefferson parish sheriff's office they're responding to four to five calls every single hour for carbon monoxide poisoning. that is something people need to be careful about, trying to power their homes with so many in the dark. that could go on for days. lauren: grady, you're talking about a lot of water damage. there was wind damage as well. grady trimble, live on the ground. we appreciate it. lauren: despite a pile up of deadlines, lawmakers will barely be in s

one with white house senior adviser cedric richmond about the new texas abortion law and senator bill cassidy from louisiana on infrastructure and more. that's right here on abc later this morning. >>> dan, another check of the weather. let's get out to rob marciano in rye, new york. a break from the rain in some places, but many in the south still dealing with power outages. >> reporter: the heat not helping obviously. floods, fires, and other climate change amplified weather disasters. let's go to the dixie fire. remember that one? it's approaching 900,000 acres. here's some video of the canadian scoopers dropping 500,000 gallons of water on that fire in the last few days. excessive heat warnings for california, nevada, and arizona. temperatures there could reach 118 degrees. there's red flag warnings for fire danger across six states. the heat will only build. a major new development following the mysterious killings of a woman and her son in south carolina. eva has that story. >>> and it's a deal. the best sales this labor day weekend straight ahead. we'll be right back. >>> "good morning

bill cassidy, they're still on board for the plan. thanks. >> thanks, jim. >>> the battle set to begin on the supreme court, let's bring in cnn analyst joan piscoupik. what are you seeing? >> usually this summer there is an adage that says the justices need their summer recess because they want to have tempers cool before they come back in october. no temperatures went down this summer especially after we saw what happened with the texas abortion, even before that when the supreme court by a 6-3 ideological split vote rejected the biden administration eviction moratorium and also his new asylum seekers plan. so what are they watching for is how the last three liberals on the supreme court, steven breyer, elena kagan and sonya sotomayor hold on and achieve anything because they are so in the down position. and we have a new chapter coming on abortion where they'll actually hear a major abortion case where they would set a rule on whether roe v. wade will survive throughout the country. gun rights. and then as everybody is wondering wil

senator bill cassidy says they do have the power as democrats alone to raise or keep the government fundedemocrats control the ability to get the debt ceiling passed. they control the house, the senate, they control the white house. they can do it without a single republican vote, period, end of story. they wanted to suspend the debt ceiling as opposed to raise it because if they raised it, they would have to reveal to the american people how much they truly hope to spend in the reconciliation bill. reporter: talking about the debt ceiling there. the treasury secretary says we have until october 18th, when the federal government struggles to pay its bills. elizabeth: edward lawrence thank you very much. good to see you. let's bring in senator bill hagerty from senate banking. what is the word what is going on? will this all flap for the democrats? >> liz, great choice of words. i think what we're seeing the complete crumbling of the whole biden administration economic agenda. this transformation of america is having a very difficult time getting across the finish line. you have a circular

senator bill cassidy reacting earlier today to news that congressman anthony gonzalez, a republican who voted to impeach trump, will not run for reelection. >> the broader question, frankly, is do republicans continue to relitigate to 2020 or do we look forward with a positive agenda. if we relitigate 2020 over and over again, it won't change the result in 2020 but we're sure to lose in 2024. >>> earlier today president biden took a bike ride in rehoboth beach, delaware. the president will speak at the u.n. general assembly and will host the first summed of the quad, meaning leaders from india, japan, and australia. nbc's mike memoli is frequently with president biden. mike, welcome again on this sunday. it's been a tough week for the president. how is the white house reacting to some of the perceived setbacks? >> reporter: alex, job one since day one for president biden has been trying to contain the pandemic and of course its resurgence with the delta variant. recently we saw the president take a number of steps over the past month starting with those vaccine mandates but also the adm

about how this case may or may not succeed on the merits, i want to play what republican senator bill cassidyho is a medical doctor by training said about this law yesterday. >> i think that the supreme court will swat it away once it comes to them in an appropriate manner. if it is as terrible as people say it is, it is going to be destroyeded by the supreme court, but to act like this is an assault upon roe v. wade is something that the president is doing to distract from his other issues. >> and so, cassidy, in many ways it is a self-professed moderate is cassidy, and this is something that we have heard from the middle of the road democrats who say this is middle of the road and this not an assault on roe v. wade. what is your reaction? >> well, every moment that goes by, and it is a violation, and so every moment that goes by, and that means that next june, the people who want to have an abortion in texas, and have a constitutional of right to do that were denied that right. they were very quick to act in a similar fashion to stop a law that would restrict religious liberty to comply wit

this ever escalating of extremism, one voice of reason in the gop might beat louisiana senator bill cassidy. he is one of only seven republican senators. who support impeaching president trump this year. cassidy appeared on meet the press this morning, where i asked him about the future prospects of his party. >> do you think at this time with where the party is choosing to go right now, with donald trump, that that is a losing strategy for the midterms at this point? >> if we relitigate the past, we lose. we have to speak about the future. now again, our country is looking for something that brings back the prosperity we have pandemic. if we speak about recovering that we, win. >> all right so there is a lot to discuss, let's bring in our all-star panel for the hour, manny has a needs no introduction, but i'm going to give him one anyway, he is the host of the many hassan show, which immediately proceeded the show. daniel moody is the host of woke a f daily. and john have a senior political reporter for nbc, digital, he's also the coauthor of lucky. how joe biden barely won the presidency.

let's talk to senator bill cassidy, republican from louisiana. you heard the discussion.1 trillion in this extra spending bill give you what you want and need in louisiana? >> there's 3 different bills we are talking about, what is the bipartisan infrastructure bill which we need and everybody needs, we then have a disaster relief bill we need after hurricane ida which is separate and will benefit people in the northeast helping them to recovery their lives and lastly there is the reconciliation bill. what is in it? if this is going to be the appropriation bill for next year what is the relative amount that goes into and into increasingly dangerous world, how much goes to new mandatory programs driving of the debt and deficit, you have to see what is in the bill before you decide whether you are for or against it. stuart: reminds me of speaker pelosi, you have to pass it to find out what is in it. not that you are going to do that but brings their close memories. the ida wreaked havoc in louisiana. you have been touring the damage, give us an update. >> last time i checke

ever-escalating chorus of extremism, one voice of reason in the gop might be louisiana senator bill cassidye of only seven republican senators who actually supported impeaching president trump earlier this year. cassidy appeared on "meet the press" this morning, where chuck todd asked him about the future prospects of his party. >> do you think at this time, with where the party is choosing to go right now with donald trump, that that is a losing strategy for the midterms at this point? >> if we relitigate the past, we lose. we've got to speak about the future. now, again, our country is looking for something which brings back the prosperity we had pre-pandemic. if we speak about recovering that, we win. >> so there is a lot to discuss. let's bring in our all star panel for the hour. mehdi hasan needs no introduction, i'll give him one anyway. he's host of "the mehdi hasan show" which immediately preceded this show. jonathan allen is senior political reporter for nbc news digital and the co-author of "lucky: how joe biden barely won the presidency." johnathan, the democrats have had a rough

so so senator bill cassidy cosponsoring a bipartisan bill yesterday to reform section 230, that givesecution. the changes would require removal of -- content in 24 hours, also could not be blocked for federal regulation actions against the country. zuckerberg has testified five times since 2019 before congress, and nothing's changed. he appeared before the house energy and commerce committee where the chairman told fox business this today: my committee is actively exploring ways to appropriately motivate all social media platforms to address disinformation, extremism and other online abuses because by now it should be painfully clear that online extremism and disinformation doesn't just stay online, it has a real world consequences. so far congress has talked and reviewed and looked at but not acted. back to you. neil: all right. edward lawrence, thank you very much. a quick update we're getting from a high-tech blog that apple is supposedly ready to mandate infrequent covid-19 testing for employees working in its offices and stores starting next month. that is all we know. we'll keep

i caught up with senator bill cassidy as he was touring the damage down here and we talked about what needs to be done to improve the power grid here and elsewhere for severe weather like this. can more be done to prepare the grid sew when a storm moves through it is not catastrophic like this. >> absolutely. that is the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the senate is now before the house. there is 65 billion for the grid. 3.5 billion specifically to harden against natural disasters reporter: and for the fifth day in a row now there are very few flights if any at all leaving out out of the new orleans airport or coming into that airport. they're still keeping people out of the city, out of their homes. so some people haven't even been back from their evacuations to come inspect the damage. i also want to touch on the national average for fuel because a lot of the nation's refining capacity takes place in louisiana but many of those refineries went off-line because of the storm and at least eight of them at the peak of the storm according to the governor. so the national average fr

. >> reporter: senator bill cassidy cosponsoring a bill that would do a number of things and try to reforme is becoming the new normal in new york city. congress manny coal malliotakis says -- congress manny coal malliotakis says deblahs owe isn't doing enough to stop it. new york city mandated the jab for all indoor places. so how's it going? roll tape. >> have you had anybody come in and say, you know, wasn't able to go in because they weren't vaccinated? >> yeah. they get angry. >> my boyfriend doesn't have it, so we've been turned down from a few restaurants. >> they were like, no, you guys gotta sit outside. stuart: michael gunzingman went around the city asking to find out, and he's going to join me with a full report in just a moment. yes, it is friday, and we want your feedback. even the bad stuff, please. sent us your thoughts to varneyviewers@fox.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ let the good times roll, let the good times roll. ♪ met the good times -- let the good times roll ♪♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate ca

we ran into senator bill cassidy while he was touring the damage, he says people are growing frustrateduld help with billions of dollars, for the power grid listen. >> i speak to the future i like to hope god forbid another major murky 16 years from now we can save both levoe. es hemmed we have power if that is the case it meanss we do preparation now. >> it is not just impacting fuels in louisiana the national average in part because of the storm, has gone up around 4 cents since just a week ago, good news dagen that is that this area, this gas station is not running on a generate right now crews are working to restore power they have to record power to at least this neighborhood. dagen. dagen: great news, grady, thank you so much be safe on the ground, in louisiana grady trimble. joining us from baton rouge, louisiana congressman member of the transportation infrastructure competent, give us update how you and your community are doing, how your shifting with this fuel shortage, that grady was reporting about in your state. . >> well, look not just fuel, cell phones down service down m

telling them not to whip up support against the infrastructure bill, you're not going to get better than that. what do you say to romney and cassidy from louisiana about that? >> i think it is pathetic watching republican sellout for $0.05 on the dollar when the amount they are going to get out of this bill compared to the amount labor unions, big government democrats are going to get is about 5% and that is an awfully cheap thing to give up your vote for that kind of a deal. >> last night we asked the question why are so many powerful people so invested in boosting china. we turn our focus to covert origins with the new documents and whistleblower testimony raising new questions for doctor fauci. the ingraham angle investigates in a moment. >> we will hear arguments in row against wade. you may proceed. >> you want to know how abortion became legal in our country i will tell you the true story. >> laura: documents >> documents detailed grant given to the eco-health alliance which filled taxpayer funds to the wuhan institute of virology for back coronavirus research. with documents were previously unpublished proposals that were f

speaker nancy pelosi promised centrist democrats she would pass $1.2 trillion bill by monday and according to ask leo senator cassidy along with romney, collins, murkowski and others are trying to sabotage members of their own party by undercutting their own efforts in the house to scuttle the bill. senate republicans are now fighting the conservatives in the house to help policy bring bacon to their home district. here is congressman jim banks, chair of the republican study committee. this is so and raging, democrats are engaged in this wild inflating, romney and murkowski come in for the safe. >> it is and raging. the good news is house republicans remain unified in opposition to this infrastructure bill. earlier this week i call on house leadership to impose formally by whipping against the fake infrastructure bill among house republicans and you should be glad to know steve scalise, the republican whip, conservative leader himself came to the republican study meeting i chair on wednesday before our members and made the formal announcement that house republicans are formally opposed to the infrastructure bill mea

pelosi has promised democrats she would pass the one-point trillion dollar bill by monday in now according to axial, senator cassidyalong with romney portman and others, our trying to sabotage members of their own party by undercutting their own efforts in the house to scuttle the bill , so the senate republicans are now siding the conservative in the house to help pelosi jus to bring home bacon to their home district. here is jim banks, congressman, this is so enraging as the democrats are engaged in this wild infighting, romney and markowski come in with the save. >> it is enraging great let me tell you, the good news is that house republicans remain unifie in opposition to the fake infrastructure bill. earlier this week i called on them to oppose by whipping against the fake infrastructure bill, and you should be glad to know that steve's police, republican whip conservative leader himself came to the republican study committee meeting that i chair on wednesday before our members an made the formal announcement that house republicans are formally opposed to the infrastructure bill meaning tha they were unified o

cassidy on "squawk box" yesterday he jumped on it. talked about the damage there. he said this is why we need this infrastructure bill frequently where do you think infrastructure stands? senator cassidy is exactly right. you know, there's been a lot of other dramaticization of what happened in the storm. in new orleans the levees held that was a great federal infrastructure project after 800,000 people got killed in katrina. here we didn't get anybody killed maybe one auto death why? no flooding, the federal levees held there hasn't been much property damage it looks bad on tv in the city itself, electricity is coming back on and i think what we just talked about is right, you have to protect the electricity grid that's the next infrastructure project we have. not just for hurricanes. that's when storms hit the northeast. that's when you have major storms we have a fragile electricity grid i've been traveling around and looking at tesla energy with elon musk and i'm looking how these power backed walls and centralized grids are coming online that's what we'll need in the future >> walter, to take on big infrastructu

bill and stave off the necessary crisis. but the american people first, ahead of the a party. it istt a pretty simple choice. >> i yield the floor i ask unanimous consent senators cassidy, kennedy be allowed to complete the remarks prior to the vote he is scheduled for a vote that he knows will fail. more than two months since july, republicans have been clear about where we stand we are working together to keep the government open and we are not willing to help democrats raise the debt ceiling while they write a tax spending spree of the proportions. the senate, the house, the white house intended to sidelines and go it alone with american families with historic tax hikes and borrowing. so, they will need to raise the debt limit on a partisan basis as well and they've known that for two months now. just like then senator biden and senator schumer voted no on a debt limit increase and made a unified republican government handle it alone back in the early 2000's. this was happening before. earlier this year, senate democrats requested and one additional reflex ability to make partisan party lines. they have every single tool they need to do their job. the democratic lea

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short-term government funding bill and the suspension of the debt limit, is just too critical for his state of louisiana. as for other republicans including senator cassidyedy who's also from louisiana to vote for it, but they're far from the ten republicans necessary in order for this to pass. and the other republicans aren't feeling that much pressure. they're extremely united at this point with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in saying that this is up to the democrats to do. so is the government going to shut down? well, it's really unclear, but i will say there's not one democrat who wants this government to shut down because president biden ran on promising a government that functions. this would be the exact opposite of it. but they are careening extremely close to this deadline. i don't see how they get out of it unless they hunt until perhaps closer to the actual deadline of the debt, when they need to pass the debt ceiling until it's supposed to be mid- to late october. what they could do is pass a clean short-term government funding bill for just two to three weeks to give them a little bit more time, but that doesn't solve the problem.

cassidy: madam president, i rise as i have before to explain the urgent need to pass a supplemental disastrous assistance bill. but this time it is not just for hurricane laura who hit southeast louisiana over a year ago. it includes hurricane ida, the fifth most powerful storm to hit the united states which hit southeast louisiana last month. and here, for example, is some of the flooding that was related to hurricane ida. i should point out this was not considered a flood event. if it's not considered a flood event, that looks like pretty bad flooding. this is considered a wind event. even when it's not considered a flood event, you see almost this entire community flooded. so i guess my statement, madam president, is we can't afford, we should not allow the impact of an entire year, now almost two years set of natural disasters go unaddressed for fellow americans. i mentioned it's over a year since hurricane laura wreaked havoc on lake charles. we're only a couple weeks shy of the one-year anniversary of hurricane delta, a category 2 storm that followed on almost the exact same track to hit southwest louis

my friend, bill cassidy of louisiana, has seen similar miracles at a world-class rehab hospital in houston, texas, where many people of his state of louisiana go for advanced treatment. the discoveries at america's best rehab innovation centers are revolutionizing medicine and reaching people far beyond their walls. but making such discoveries and repelling the field of medicine costs money, more money than these nonprofit centers can afford on their own. that is why today senator cassidy and i are reintroducing our bipartisan proposal to recognize and support some of america's best rehab innovation centers. our bill does two things. first, it directs h.h.s. to set criteria for such rehabilitation innovation centers and share the best practices and teachings with health providers flute the nation and around the world. our bill directs h.h.s. to study whether medicare's existing payment system is adequate to support groundbreaking treatment, research, and medical education that is taking place at the hospitals. when i first introduced this bill in 2013, i had a different republican cosponso