house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer held an enrollment ceremony for the covid relief package. they were joined by lawmakers from the house and senate at this event outside the u.s. capitol. de the u.s. capitol. >> oohh! >> it still works. >> oohh! >> it still works. ms. pelosi: are we ready? are we ready? ok. good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. ms. pelosi: thank you. this is indeed a special and good afternoon. this is a momentous day in the history of our country. because we have passed historic, consequential and transformative legislation. we are here today to sign the enrollment, enroll the bill before it goes to the white house. in doing so, engrossment of these ceremonies are occasions to express recognition and appreciation. first i want to express recognition and appreciation to the president of the united states, joe biden. [applause] president biden's vision and his determination were so apparent to the american people and the reason why this legislation enjoys the support of 75% of the american people in a strong, bipartisan way across

senate. brought all of that beautiful exuberance together so that we could have success today. mr. leader, welcome back to the house. >> thank you. nancy let me thank you for your beautiful exuberance as well. and the thinks goes to the senators who are standing here. our greek committee chairs. and all of our senators who pulled together as one unit. beating back killer amendments. making sure the bill was as strong as possible. i want to salute them. those who are here and those who could not be here. i want to salute the house as well. we were seamless, we worked together. democrats on the house side. democrats on the senate side. altogether because we knew how important this was to america. so what do we say to america? we say to america help is on the way. help is on the way. you will receive 1400 dollar checks by the end of march. help is on the way. vaccines will be available for more quickly far more quickly, help is on the way, our schools will open more safely and quickly than we thought. help is on the way. half of america's children who are in poverty will not be in poverty because of this bill. help is

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the capitol itself has two wings, one for the senate and one for the house of representatives. al, the two chambers of congress have equal powers, and the majority of members of each must approve before a law can be made. the senate has special powers in the ratification of treaties and presidential appointments and acts as a court in case of impeachment. there are 96 senators, two from each state. the house of representatives has 435 members elected by the people of the states. they house elects appropriation bills. only half the work takes place under its dome. here is where congress has their offices and do most of their work. there are also meeting rooms for committees, large and small. this is the library of congress which holds one of the world's largest collections of reference books. to the north is a senator office building where senators have suites of offices for themselves and for their assistants. let us go in and lockdown one of the curators. senator green of rhode island, senator taft of ohio. he is a senator himself. half of his day is spent reading and answering

>> well, it's so interesting, both in house and senate, as you know, terry, just about even, couple of votes more for democrats in the house, even steven in the senate. but public opinion for this massive america rescue plan as president biden calls it, overwhelmingly in favor of it. 72% of the public favors this according to "new york times" poll that was taken just a few days ago. and if you break it down to democrats, independents, republicans, sure democrats are overwhelmingly, way overwhelmingly, but independents, about the same amount, 3/4, and even republicans, 43%. which makes it so difficult to understand, particularly why it was so hard for republicans in both chambers to give to any great extent when it comes to this massive bill. >> given the virtual split in the house and senate. senate down the middle, house close. what can we expect on major bills under consideration down the road, new voting rights, immigration reform coming back into the headlines, infrastructure as well. going to be going along the same lines? split and maybe kamala harris pushing it over in the senat

control of the house or the senate might change.— of the house or the senate might change. of the houseange. yes, he does have to move fast because there - might change. yes, he does have to move fast because there is - to move fast because there is this window of opportunity which could show us, it is very rare, relatively speaking, that a president has his same party in control of the house and the senate. and it's also rare that he has the wins at his back, so to speak, whether republican party is an complete disarray if not in actual civil war. the next major initiative i expect will either be a major infrastructure plan, that is to repair notjust infrastructure plan, that is to repair not just the infrastructure plan, that is to repair notjust the roads and bridges and pipes and all the water systems that have been crumbling in the united states for many years, but also direct a loss of money towards reversing climate change, towards wind and solar and other non— fossil fuels full there is a great deal of support for this and it means a lot of good jobs.— lot of good “obs. professo

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you have very few members in the house or the senate. in the house i think it's something like 80% have been there since just 2006. have been elected since 2006. so most folks don't remember not just what it was like in the early, late '90s, but even in that relatively calm period politically when republicans had the house for five straight terms, five straight years in the early 2000s. and so what you have is kind of a bifurcation which is where this tension is between folks who are saying, well, gosh, joe biden, he's been part of washington for 50 years. he knew of this era. he loved -- at least he talked about how much he loved this era of working across the aisle, friendships with republicans, he was going to bring this unity back. and yet structurally washington is so much different than the place he came to when he first was elected. but even the place that he came to when he was vice president in 2009 or, you know, when the senate was -- the last time the senate was 50/50 in 2000. you have just such a different makeup of senators a

. >> do you expect the house to pass what the senate just passed , including amendments that may not be as palatable? sen. schumer: i spoke to a number of people in the house over the last few days, including the speaker, and they feel like we do, we have to get this done. it will not be everything everyone wants. no bill is especially a massive comprehensive bill like this but the beauty here within our caucus and between democrats and the house and senate is we realize we have got to pull together to accomplish something. that is true the caucus and of the house and senate. >> you think the president will be signing up before the march 14th expiration? sen. schumer: i definitely do. i have no doubt about that. that is what we saw, everything we said we would do. we put together things the american people wanted. no matter what happened, we would not stop and power through and get it done, and by god, we did. what is bad? nothing. >> leader schumer, you said a couple of times this will push americans over the finish line. will this be the last covid-19 relief bill? sen. schumer: part

host: the senate wound up passing that bill. it is on to the house now where the final vote on the bill as changed by the senate will happen sometime tomorrow. you can watch that here. phone numbers again, 202-748-8000 free democrats. for republicans, 202-748-8001. independents 202-748-8002. we have eugene from connecticut on the line now. good morning. caller: good morning. this is a very important issue. the federal debt has an interest rate around one half of 1% at this moment. the federal reserve system has interest rates near zero in order to stimulate the economy. they have made a mess of the entire financial system and this goes back to 1913 when the federal reserve system was created. if the interest rates goes back to anything like normal, currently the federal government spends $523 billion to pay the interest on this gigantic debt. that is second only to the pentagon budget. if interest rates increase only a little bit to 1%, 2%, 3%, that cost of interest is going to $1 trillion, a two trillion dollars, trillion dollars. it is going to ban

reporter: just to put a finer point on that, senator schumer said -- i know he's not here -- there will be a vote on the house bill and see where everyone stands. if it fails, then figure something out. so are any sort of -- this is for the senators, i suppose -- any sort of bipartisan discussions happening? because manchin and thumy got two votes -- thume got two votes previously. only two of those remain in the senate. are manchin and thume on board? senator murphy: i think we're living in a different world than 2013. so much has changed. the politics around us are fundamentally different. i think senator blumenthal, i should leave it to senator schumer about the floor schedule. you can't compare 2013 to 2021. i think there are a lot of republican senators that are thinking about voting for a proposal that allows them to get right on this issue. mr. thompson: i'm going to ask our colleague, congresswoman mcbath, to close us out, please. mrs. mcbath: i am just completely grateful for the -- all of the hard work and for all of the effort that has been placed in to making this happen today. and i would just li

democrats are warning they could see the same result even though they are in charge of the senate now were house democrats passed all these bills that are top legislative priorities that then go over to the senate but then don't become law. they are doing how can we go back to voters who gave us control of both chambers on the white house and say we control all congress and the white house but we still couldn't get everything done because of the senate rule. that is weighing heavily on democrats right now and starting to move the needle a little bit in the senate where there is talk of changing the filibuster rule because otherwise they do risk effectively seeing the same results as they did while republicans were in control of the senate. host: that caller also managing -- mentioning the minimum wage. there's a push for a bipartisan conversation on the minimum wage. what is next for the minimum wage? >> progressives are calling on the white house to present a plan for what they will do next because the white house hasn't said at this point how it plans to get that priority done. there are some

capitol where house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer are briefing reporters and talking about the gun legislation the house is considering today. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> hr-8 and hr-1846. the first one deals with background checks before anyone can buy a firearm, they would have to pass a background check to ensure that they're not criminals, they're not domestic abusers, or they're not dangerously mentally ill. the second bill, hr-1446, known as the charleston loophole bill, will tighten up the background check laws to make sure that people don't fall through the cracks, criminals or people who are danger to themselves or others don't fall through the cracks and are able to get firearms without first passing the background check. these two pieces of legislation will go a long way in curbing gun violence. every day 30 people are killed by someone using a gun. if you include suicides and accidental death involving firearms, that number jumps up to 100 people a day. gun violence costs taxpayers 280 billion dollars every year. hr-8, the background c

>> reporter: well, it's slow in senate and house time, but it's pretty rapid in the calendar time of real americans. what i mean by this, the senate majority is very narrow, 50-50. you can't get more narrow than that. the house majority is also narrow. so, you have to be careful. you can't lose many votes. also, remember, in the senate, there was an impeachment trial to open up this legislative year, and, it took a while for republicans and democrats to even organize under a senate democratic majority-- that being a very narrow one. all of those things slowed this process down a little bit. but, still, having this $1.9 trillion package done by mid- march, well, it's twice the size of president obama's relief package to deal with the great recession. that was done in mid-february. so twice as large, only one month longer in time. that's not bad. >> diaz: that's great perspective. and, now, turning to the president, joe biden campaigned on the promise of working with republicans. but this bill has zero republican support. how does that bode for future legislation? >> reporter: it's goin

thank you to the chairs, the house and senate chairs and as you said so correctly all those who are not here, as well. thank you. shall we? >> all right. there you have it. with a little help as the speaker out house said with bourbon. the american rescue plan gets signed on capitol hill and makes the way to the president's desk for signature and taking place friday afternoon. that was the house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck schumer. mike memoli, anna palmer with us. mike, i have a question for you, as well. beautiful exuberance is the way it's described. the most consequential legislation passed in decades as both the speaker and the senate majority leader said there. your reaction to those descriptions, anna? >> clearly democrats taking a victory lap here. this is a most consequential legislation the speaker has been a part of since obamacare. legacy making piece of legislation and for chuck schumer, he called out bernie sanders, the budget committee chairman, who could have settled this for democrats once the $15 minimum wage was taken out but each leaders thanki

[applause] to the members of the house and senate, thanks for making this happen. you made this happen. as i said, i served 36 years in the senate. i know how hard it is to pass major consequential legislation. particularly when we only have such a small majority in both houses. you have done an incredible job. and nancy and chuck, i have to say that i agree with many of the columnists that have commented on this legislation. what you shepherded through congress does even more. it is historical. they call it transformational. it really is. the bill was supported overwhelmingly by the american people. democrats, independents, and republicans. it had the strong support of governors, mayors, all across the country, both parties, red states and blues. over 400 mayors contact me, with many republicans supporting the bill. here is why. what you all did and the refinements you made directly address the emergency in this country. because it focuses on what people need most. debbie and i often talk about in straightforward language, what we're doing to help. tell the story

for the house and senate, thank you for making this happen. i served certain -- 36 years in the senate and i know how hard it is to pass consequential legislation, especially when we have small majorities in both houses. nancy and chuck, i have to say that i agree with many of the columnists that have commented on this legislation, what you shepherded to the congress not only meets the moment, it does even more. it is historical and they call it transformational. it really is. the bill was supported overwhelmingly by the american people, democrats, independents, and republicans, and had a strong support of governors and mayors across the country in both red and blue states. over 430 mayors contacted me, many republicans, supporting the bill. here is why, because what you did directly addressed the emergency in this country, because it focuses on what people need most. debbie i -- and i often talked about having to tell people in straightforward language what you are doing to help. you have to be able to tell story of what you are about to do a

as result of that, $1.9 trillion bill pass the house, goes to senate, some changes around the edges are say we've got to pass this $1.9 trillion version in order for it to become law, darn the progressives in the house, i guess we'll do that. ultimately that's the bill that joe biden signs into law. >> is this one neat trick repicable. created a credible threat. does that work a second time? how does the fact that they may not be able to pass much more legislation with 50 democratic votes in the senate, how does that factor in ezra? >> i'm hopeful, got to say i'm hopeful. what you want to see happening for this to play out again is series of progressive legislations to start passing the house. and lo and behold what do we see? lgbt rights being protected, union organizing protection in legislation, top of the list heard from mark elias and stacy brown and importance of for the people act, all the pro-democracy priorities are passing the house. yes, ultimately going to go to the senate and going to come up against a senate filibuster by mitch mcconnell, but i believe based on what we're

but now that the democrats have the house, the senate, and the white house, there seems to be no desire to go down that road. and i will talk about that in a minute. april 21, 2020 we get $355 more by voice vote. spending $355 billion by voice vote is pretty astonishing. $1.9 trillion is pretty astonishing. september 30, 2020, $83 more. december 21, just a few months ago we spent another $1 trillion, 92-6. why do i bring this up? i bring it up to show that there's plenty of bipartisanship around covid relief and that bipartisanship has stopped. president biden made a big deal about wanting to bring the country together and find common ground. well, the one area that we actually had common ground, we've abandoned common ground to deal with a $1.9 trillion package just months after we authorized $1.04 trillion, and here's the problem i think republicans have. the $1.9 trillion being proposed now, about 90% of it has got very little to do with covid. it is a liberal wish list. the reason i know it's a liberal wish list is because senator schumer said 15 times yesterday -- about 15 times --

sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the house and senate to act. we can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again. i got that done when i was a senator. it passed. it was a law for the longest time. and it brought down these mass

job, the senate's purpose is different. the house is actually allowed to act with a hot head, precise lis because the senate exists to cool those passions, the senate exists to act with a cool head. our job is not to cater to sudden and instant majorities and to changes in the wind. the senate's job is it to enlarge and refine the house's judgments and to try to build consensus that can last so that the majority's will can be advanced while the minority's rights are also protected. the bullies who want to permanently upend the way our legislature works don't understand that their short-term gain, this or that bill, will come at a long-term cost of the entire structure of the rights and interests of our constitutional balance. it doesn't take a lot of courage to go with the current of a mob, but a lot of senators who quietly want to resist this change, and there are many on that side of the aisle who want to resist this change, you're worried that going against the tide means watching dollars and votes float away, it means getting scr

senate filibuster rule. here are those remarks from earlier. >> house democrats tried to overturn survival election results fromvember, some democrats are break setting senate rules for partisan rewrite of all 50 states. all 50 states election holes. the threshold is the reason why huge pillars of domestic policy back and forth every time a different party wins majority. so let's think of something like the mexico city policy executive branch policy about funding overseas is stripped back and forth, every single time the white house changed party. since the 1980s, for help the president issued a memo from democratic presidents retracted. the legislative filibuster is what keeps the entirety of federal law from working that way. for a long time, senators on both sides have recognized the senate and the country are better off with actual stability. both sides have understood there's no permanent majorities in american politics so a system that gives both sides, benefits everyone in the long term. that's why 33 of our democratic colleagues said a few years ago when they all signed a letter insisting rulese protect

we quickly began working with the house and senate on further reforms to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. the bill i signed into law does just that. first and foremost, sb 202 replaces the signature match process with a state issued id requirement to request and submit an absentee ballot. when voting in person in the state of georgia, you must have a photo id. it only makes sense for the same standard to apply to absentee ballots as well. for example, the november 2020 election saw a 350% increase in the use of absentee balloting, over 1.3 million absentee ballots total when compared to election day in 2018. this obviously led local election workers to have to process far more ballots using a time-consuming, labor-intensive and at times arbitrary process. by moving to a state issued id requirement instead of a signature match, georgia will dramatically streamline the verification process on absentee ballots. sb 202 also secures all ballot drop boxes around-the-clock, speeds up processing to ensure quicker election results, requires a security paper to allow for authentication of

control of the house and senate in 2022? pres. biden: what i'm worried about is how un-american the soul initiative is. -- this whole initiative is. it is sick. it is sick. deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line, waiting to vote, deciding that you are going to end voting at 5:00,

quote, the legislative filibuster is the most important distinction between the senate and the house. without the 60-vote threshold for legislation, the senate becomes a majoritarian institution, just like the house. much more subject to the whims of short-term electoral change. no senator would like to see that happen. so let's find a way to further protect the 60-vote rule for legislation. that was the -- that was the current democratic leader, senator schumer, in april of 2017, less than four years ago. here's another quote, mr. president. what about the nuclear option, doing away with the filibuster? i can tell you that would be the end of the senate as it was originally devised and created, going back to our founding fathers. we have to acknowledge our respect for the minority, and that is what the senate tries to do in its composition and in its procedure, end quote. that was the assistant democratic leader, senator durbin, in 2018, about three years ago. a few years ago, 33 members of the senate side signed a letter insisting that, quote, we preserve existing rules, practices,

she compared the house to the senate and the house is 435 members, there are 100 senators, so there are members of the house to be concerned about. so she said it is convenient for them to move up early. so they doesn't necessarily indicate that there is any specific intelligence that indicated they had to get out of session because of an imminent threat on the capitol or anything like that or that they may have heard something different than what senators have had. but more of it is a simple scheduling matter. so she sort of downplayed that decision because it did provoke a fair amount of questions about where the house would scrap its plans and not the senate and was the house adjusting its plans in the aftermath of some people suggesting that they may do something, even though on january 6th the senate and the house came back as a demonstration they will not disrupt congressional proceedings but this time they did. she said it should not be interpreted that they changed everything because a few people were making some comments, that should not be the interpretation here. she's just d

house. we will win the senate. blican president will make a triumphant return to the white house, and i wonder who that will be. i wonder who that will be. >> joining me now, former republican congresswoman barbara comstock, and evan mccullen, a candidate for president in 2016, thanks to both of you this morning. we're less than two months out from a deadly insurrection on the capitol who senior most republican in the senate says explicitly the president incited. i wonder barbara comstock, has the party already rehabilitated him? >> no, i don't think so, not the party at large. you know, there's a difference between cpac and the small group of people there and the party at large and the american people. first, i'd like to point out, my prediction and i think pretty accurate, nobody who spoke at that convention is going to be president. that includes donald trump. secondly, this is really about raising money. one of the notable things other than the big lie and the, you know, revenge fest that he had there was asking

they didn't do it in the senate, they're probably not going to do it in the house. republicans are a little bit more ideological, even less likely to compromise in the senate. if you didn't see it in the senate bill, you're probably not going to see it in the house. and you've had republicans on the house side, the senate side, at the rnc, talk about how this bill is a wish list for democrats, right? and so, there's no -- there's no world i see in which republicans are going to sign onto this as they continue to talk about how it is not for the american people, that it's a wish list in a way that's not about covid relief. and that's something that the republicans have been on message on, so they're not looking to change that. so, i think what's going to pass, you know, with party line vote in the house, whenever that's going to happen, and they do have to be careful here, because like i said before, there are some democrats that are a little bit upset in the house that these things changed, and they can only lose three. but just like ali said, everyone's very bullish

until the senate ceases to be dispense from the house in any respect. this chaos would not open up an express lane for liberal change, it would not open up an express lane for the biden presidency to speed into the history books. the senate would be more like a 100 car pileup. nothing moving. then there's the small matter that is never permit for the last time the democratic leader tried to start a nuclear exchange i remember offering a warning. i said my colleagues would regret it. in just a few years and the few supreme court -- later many of myth democratic colleagues publicly did. touching the hot stove again would yield the same result but even more dramatic. as senate republicans wound up back in the saddle we wouldn't just erase every liberal change that hurt the country, we would strengthen america with all kinds of conservative policies with zero, zero input from the other side. how about this? nationwide right to work for working americans? defunding planned parenthood in sanctuary cities on day one? a whole new era of domestic energy productio

senate. if you do away with that you end up with two houses of representatives. without the filibuster there is no reason to have the senate. i think we should pause and have a long think for we do away with the branch of our government. host: auburn, washington, good morning. caller: good morning. my question regarding the state voting, is there a way that automatically when a person does die we automatically put it in social security -- is there a way to find out if they have been taken off the registration on voting? guest: this is up to the states to figure out. what i don't like about h.r.1 is six months before an election you cannot challenge any voter on the roll. six months before an election, if you know people should not be on the ballot because they moved, because they passed away -- for whatever reason you can't remove them. i think that is a major problem with h.r.1. i think it is basic common sense. if you are not eligible to vote, you shouldn't be on the voting roll. host: democrat, new york. caller: what a coincidence. two auburns. i have to disagr

the house provision includes a minimum wage hike. but it will be stripped out when the senate session begins. the house would have to take up the covid package against once the senate makes its changes. the hope is to get it signed into law before the middle of the month when millions of americans are set to lose their pandemic unemployment benefits. manu raju is here with me. manu, you look at the debate going forward in the senate. it starts this week. the so-called vota rama coming up in the middle of your week. bring espresso. where did we see this ending up? likely to be scaled back some finally in terms of the final price tag and obviously the minimum wage comes out? >> i am not sure how much more will be changed in this bill once minimum wage is stripped down. we know there is virtually no path to get the minimum wage done. even this alternative you referenced is not going to get into this bill because democrats can't get on the same page on this issue. but the concern among the democratic leadership is if there are large change it is going to upset liberals who will re

with me now cnn political correspondent dana bash and white house correspondent for politico laura lopez. as we await for nancy pelosi and senator schumer, support for this bill across america is huge. 61% of americans support this thing. you saw the statement from the people, it's the people's law at the people's house. how huge is this for this white house? >> it's enormous. it's enormous for so many reasons. first and foremost just because it is the first very big piece of legislation that this president is pushing through. second of all, the content of what's in it that we just heard from our colleagues, it is all about the president's number one priority, twin priorities, getting the pandemic, you know, off our plates and getting the economy up and running, and -- and there's no question that that is the -- the vast majority of this bill, and it reaches deep inside pockets of the workforce, pockets of society that democrats have been arguing, especially the most loudly during the 2020 primary season, have not gotten the help that they have needed from the fact, so that is why this is -- so positive for the president in term