congressman brendan boyle, thank you for joining us on this sunday afternoon as always. we appreciate it. great to see you again. >>> we are still following the breaking news from haiti where a group of 17 missionaries, three of them children, have been kidnapped by a gang in port-au-prince. the organization now releasing a statement about the abduction. nbc's sam brock has more on this. >> reporter: yasmin, good afternoon. good to be with you. we have late breaking details about that abduction, which initially u.s. state department had only confirmed reports of, not the actual kidnapping but do christian aid ministries, the ohio-based nonprofit is posting on its website there were 17 people kidnapped from within their ranks, 16 american citizens, one canadian citizen, five men, seven women, and five children as part of that statement they say join us in praying for those being held hostage. the kidnappers and the families, friends, and churches of those affected. absolutely devastating news. we are also learning the associated press speaking with haitian police who are

for more on this, i want to bring in brendan boyle from pennsylvania. he serves on the ways and means committee as well as the budget committee. congressman, it's great to see you this morning. how do you feel about this delay? can these pieces of legislation eventually pass, both of them? >> yeah, it's great to be with you. thanks for having me on. and i have to say, i'm actually more optimistic now about passing both bills than i was a week ago. thursday and friday, you know, might have been very long days and at the moment don't look like they achieved anything. but actually, behind the scenes, i think there was more movement in those two days than the previous two months. i think that democrats of every stripe now recognize that what president biden said when he addressed house democrats in person friday afternoon is correct. that we need to come to an agreement on both bills. that that's the way it's going to happen. i also think this new deadline of october 31st does have -- it does force folks to really concentrate. deadlines do tend to concentra

and duly noted, no democrat-on-democrat violence coming from you, brendan boyle.to your democratic colleague, josh gottheimer. he's also put out a statement after the bipartisan infrastructure bill was delayed. he says, we cannot let this small faction on the far left who employ freedom caucus tactics as described by "the new york times" today, destroy the president's agenda and stop the creation of 2 million jobs a year. not asking you to go violent, but do you have a response to him? >> well, just to be fair, it's not a handful. it's about 40 to 50. but frankly, the person who ultimately made the decision to, you know, reset this course was president biden. when he came here to capitol hill yesterday afternoon and spoke to all of us, he reflected the view that i have always had, which that ultimately, it wasn't just going to be one bill passing. it had to be both. that's just a matter of math. and i think the president got that reality and said, look, let's take a time-out, let's talk about what we're for instead of focus always being on the number. the presiden

democratic congressman and member of the progressive caucus, brendan boyle, summed up the talks to bloomberguote, we are just missing two things. what exactly is going to be in the bill and how we are going to pay for it. critical questions. joining me now, democratic congresswoman pramila jayapal, chair of the progressive caucus. great to have you back. what does it say that the president is apparently going to the democratic caucus's meeting tomorrow morning and is it going to have an impact? >> anderson, it's great to be back. i don't know what the president's going to say tomorrow. a ever of course, we always welcome hearing from the president but here's the thing. if there isn't a deal, which is what i am still hearing that we don't have agreement of senator manchin and senator sinema on a framework -- even on a framework, much less on legislate ichb text, then i'm not sure what the president is going to present to us. we have been very clear that this is -- we have been standing up for the 85% of the president's agenda that is in the build back better act. and that the two bills -- the

in just a couple of minutes, we'll hear from congressman brendan boyle about what's next.w minutes ago, spoke to former facebook, google, and pinterest employees about the intimidation they faced after coming forward. and south of the border, new reporting from telemundo reveals the very real threats of violence many migrants face

as the member designated by congressman brendan boyle, i inform the house that congressman boyle will vote yea on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. al lawson, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. tom malinowski, i inform the house that mr. mall newskey will vote yes on h.r. 2989. as the member designated by mr. sires, as the member designated by mr. -- i inform the house that mr. sires will vote yes on h.r. 298 t. as the member designated by mrs. bonnie watson coleman, i inform the house that mrs. watson coleman will vote yes on h.r. 29 # 9, as the member designated by mr. payne, i inform the house that mr. payne will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mr. doggett of texas, i inform the house that mr. doggett votes aye on h.r. 2989. t

i see my colleague, brendan boyle here who has an idea to stop the lunacy of the debt ceiling charade for a long-term solution. but unless and until we do that, we need to meet our obligations and be able to protect the full faith and credit of the united states. and hopefully do that on a more honest basis. thank you very much, madam speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: i'm proud to yield two minutes to the ranking republican of the budget committee, the gentleman from missouri, mr. smith. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mr. 134eu9: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank leader brady for yielding. i truly hope that my democrat colleagues don't believe the garbage that they have been spouting. but i would say that they probably do. unfortunately for months, democrats have been pursuing a radical partisan agenda that contains the most expensive piece of legislation in the history of c