schumer: i explained it to you. it takes $258 billion. >> an update on the democrats' taxes, health care, and climate change bill, known as the "inflation reduction act." senator schumer said they will begin work later on it today with a vote. if approved, there will be votes on unlimited amendments. all votes, including final passage, only require a simple majority. meanwhile, majority leader hoyer has put leaders on notice that the house will be called back into session friday, august 12 to consider the bill if the senate completes its work. read the congressional budget analysis of the democrats' plan at c-span.org and follow the senate live on c-span two or

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schumer: i explained it to you. it takes $258 billion. >> an update now on the democrats climate change and inflation will known as the inflation reduction act, he will begin working on it on saturday the plan to officially debate. the weekend is expected to be full of votes, with final votes on monday, all votes require a simple majority. meanwhile, the house may be called back into session friday, august 12 if the senate completes its work. you can see analysis of the democrats plan on c-span.org, and follow live on c-span.org or c-span now are free will video at -- our free mobile video at -- app. c-span has complete coverage of the january 6 committee, go to our january 6 page two watch all of the latest on the hearings. we will also have reaction from members of congress and the white house as well as journalists and authors talking about the investigation go to c-span.org/january 6 for a fast and easy way to watch when you can't see it live. >> c-span shop.org is c-span's online store. shop a selection of c-sp

schumer: sen. schumer: look, i cared about these family issues. senator manchin, when we negotiated, felt, given the needs to fight inflation, we did not have time to do it, but we are going to return to those issues with a vengeance. and in the fall in every way that we can. i believe in them very, very strongly. so does most of our caucus. i think we are not forgetting those family issues. we knew we had to accomplish what we could accomplish. but there is more to do, both in the areas where we did stuff, there is more to do on climate. but also areas that we were unable to get a 50 vote majority for that bill, those proposals. yes? >> [inaudible] sen. schumer: look, on climate overall, the fact that so many people now across america have seen the fires and floods and tornadoes and hurricanes, the heat, that the weather is changing, has made many more people believers in climate change. the urgency of the issue is much greater. when you see a fired not so far from your home or a flood or whatever or you hear that -- you live in miami, the whole

schumer speaking there on the senate floor. taking a victory lap with the passage of the inflation reduction act after 24 hours or so of hard work on the senate floor for democrats. the passage of all democrats voting in favor of the inflation reduction act. all republicans voting against it, of course, the tie breaking vote was vice president harris. let's bring in liz smith, who is a veteran political consultant, author of a new book, any given tuesday. elizabeth, it's good to talk to you as we're watching this historic moment. senator schumer taking this victory lap, with the passage of this legislation, this monumental legislation. it's been quite a clip for democrats over the last few months or so, the lead up of course to the midterms. talk about this moment and your reaction so far to what we've been seeing. >> for the last couple of months there's been this narrative setting in about joe biden that he's weak, that he's an effective, that he wasn't able to deliver on his promise of getting bipartisan results for the amer

schumer: they are lying. of republicans, they defend the very rich and say they are defending the middle class. when they did the trump tax cuts, they said they were for the middle class but the vast majority went to the very rich. this is what republicans want to do and we have reversed it, and that will be welcomed by 90% of americans. judy: the overall picture that this is a 750 some odd billion dollar bill, democrats for months were pushing for a 3.5 trillion dollar, and then a $1.75 trillion package. this went on for months. why not settle for something like this sooner? it would not only have saved time but meant the benefits you are talking about going into effect sooner. sen. schumer: no one was ready to do it sooner. the bottom line is we wanted to get as good a package as we could. senator joe manchin rejected the package with president biden, so i sat down with him and we negotiated and it took us a while to get there. everybody, including the most progressive people, you look at eversenator from b

schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: unanimous consent that the senate consider the following nominations, calendar number 1078 to 1093 and all nominations on the secretary's desk, that tt nomination -- that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order to any of the nominations, that the president be notified immediately of the senate's actions. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session to be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 733, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 733, designating september 2022 as national child awareness month and so forth.

you could call it the manchin-schumer tax hike of 2022. it sprung to life unbeknownst, i believe, to virtually all the democratic senators except nor senator manchin and senator schumer. and no one has seen what we will purportedly be voting on later today, even our democratic colleagues. no one has seen the final product once the so-called byrd bath has been undertaken by the parliamentarian, this will be a substitute bill that senator schumer will lay down, but nobody has seen it. when the senior senator from west virginia announced this bill last week -- or this agreement, every republican was shocked from my view most democrats were as well. my private conversations with many of my democratic colleagues said, boy, that does not look good to be working so closely together on a bipartisan bill only to spring this on everybody by surprise. looks like they were trying to pull a fast one. after all, senator manchin had put the kibosh on the reckless tax-and-spending spree bill last year. privately his democratic colleagues assured me this w

and chuck schumer is going to get on a train back to manhattan.nd then we are going to tell joe biden that it is 2025 and he will just one border -- just wander back to delaware. what is happening here is powerful. and the people of nevada are on the front lines. you all are saving the state of nevada, you are saving the country. you are saving the constitution. you are saving the bill of rights and you are saving it for your kids and for your children's kids. this is a fight for america and mark my words, this is a fight freedom will win. god bless you. >> there you go. >> we are going to do it this way. all right. ♪ >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> how are you doing? >> alright, 1, 2, 3. >> perfect, thank you. >> i like your shirt. >> senator, right here. >> are you getting ready to start? >> perfect, thank you. >> right here. >> thank you. >> good to see you. you do? >> we appreciate everything you do. >> thank you. >> thank you for standing up. ♪ >> thank you very much. thank you for being here. >> he went that way. >> right here, 1, 2,

he's been negotiating with chuck schumer on the inflation reduction act and the final agreement was made in a zoom call. democrats say the bill would reduce the deficit by $300 billion, revenue would come from a minimum corporate tax rate, expanded irs tax enforcement and by tightening the so-called carried interest loophole that benefits some investment managers. the bill would also make the largest investment in fighting climate change in u.s. history. nearly $370 billion will go to new tax credits for renewable forms of electricity, electric vehicles and grants to automakers to increase efficiency. on healthcare, the bill would keep the affordable care act premiums from increasing and cap out of pocket prescription drug costs for medicare recipients at $2,000 per year. medicare will also be able to directly negotiate prices with drug companies, reducing costs. we go now to west virginia democrat joe manchin. senator, welcome. i hope you're feeling better from the covid. let me start with -- >> i am, john. thanks for having me.ieit. let me start with something you to said back in 2010

now, i am pleased to introduce senate majority leader chuck schumer.plause] majority leader schumer: thank you, representative clyburn, for that introduction. and i want to thank you, president biden, for inviting us to the white house today. thanks to my colleagues here today, this has been one of the most productive stretches in senate history. from the first gun safety billy decades, to strengthening nato, to out competing the communist chinese party, to the care of our veterans and to top it all off, we celebrate a groundbreaking achievement, the most important bill we have passed in a long time. president biden will sign the inflation reduction act into law today. [cheers and applause] i am confident this bill will endure as one of the greatest legislative feats in decades. it will lower costs, create millions of good paying jobs and is the boldest climate bill ever. in normal times, getting these bills done would be a huge achievement. but to do it now with only 50 democratic votes in the senate, over an intransigent republican minority, is nothi

schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader in con ultation with the republican leader, the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar 1100, hipali de sai to be united states district judge, that there be ten minutes for debate, that upon the use or yielding back of time, the senate vote on the nomination, without intervening action or debate, that if confirmed the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, that any statements related to the nomination be printed in the record, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the previous actions on s. 734. the pre

tex us about that. >> schumer to his credit never gave up on manchin. i mean he clearly had, you know, huge differences with him, they were upset, a lot of people upset about the filibuster, and when you get rid of that, voting rights issue, a huge issue, and opposed the party on nominee, but he kept talking to manchin and kept in play and one time the president wouldn't speak to manchin he was so mad and he carries a flip phone and calls 20 to 30 senators a day, talks to everybody all the time and sometimes they try to hide from schumer because he talks to them so much but he kept working on them, and in his own style, he just kind of, he kept the lines of communication open, and he was able to get a deal with manchin and once he got manchin, key get sinema. think of this in a 50-50 senate, has a big deal, the bipartisan infrastructure deal, a chips deal, gun control, these are big wins for democrats, and you know, in a tough place, in a tough margin and an unpopular president, and a very small minor control of, very small control of congress, and schu

leader schumer deserves a lot of credit for doing so. and in the end, after a fair amount of work, we were able to get this done. and i so look forward to president biden signing this bill into law. >> this measure is on its way to the house. do you feel like you're more likely to get bipartisan support there? >> i think it's very unlikely that we'll get bipartisan support in the house, unfortunately. as you know, i'm someone who always wants to see how question work across the aisle. but this bill was just straight party line here in the senate. i expect it will be as well in the house. and i think speaker pelosi and the house democratic caucus will quickly pass it. they'll come back into session soon, pass it and send it to the president's desk. >> so this is being called the inflation reduction act. so how specifically will this impact inflation right now? >> it does several important things. it pays down the deficit by $300 billion. it reduces the energy costs that the average family pays in very specific and concrete ways. it helps

you've got biden and harris and schumer and pelosi, and they have gone to crazy town. every policy they put in place is an absolute disaster. it's actually remarkable that they managed to get everything wrong. if they rolled dice, if they threw darts at a wall, they'd accidentally get some policy right. but everything they touch turns to garbage. you've got inflation skyrocketing, cost of homes going through the roof, the cost of electricity, the cost of food, the cost of health care, the cost of gas. nevada has the second-highest inflation of any state in the union. it's so bad, antifa can't afford bricks. it is so bad, it is so bad that eric swalwell can't afford chinese dinners. it's so bad, it is so bad that aoc can't afford fake handcuffs. it is bad. we've got crime skyrocketing across this country, murder rates are up, carjacking rates are up. we've got chaos at our southern border, the worst illegal immigration and 62 years. i will say, my stated texas has begun putting the illegal immigrants on buses. and sending them to washington, d.c. in new york city. in th

always, leader schumer said yes i will not give up. i will not give up.o thank you so much for your commitment and to your chairs, thank you chair cantwell, thank you into the republicans, this is bipartisan. the president and speaker and leader insisted it would be bipartisan and we are showing the world that america can get things done in a bipartisan way when it matters. so thank you for your leadership. i also have to say thank you to a group that rarely gets a thank you which is the white house staff, the unsung heroes. you guys worked day and night seven days a week starting with this group. thank you guys for being there and for making this happen. thank you. [applause] and to the staff at the commerce department think you for putting up with me and teaching me the ropes. this couldn't have come at a more urgent met. could not have come at a more urgent moment. it has been said semiconductors power everything. everything in our economy and thank you to those of you here today. our overreliance on foreign and you factures is a real vulnerability. as

how do you plan to take down chuck schumer? the fact that whether you're left of bernie sanders or right of donald trump, his fingerprints are on everything that's gone wrong in our body politic today. 42 years this man has been in congress, 6 years before that in the new york state assembly. he has gained power in our name. we're here to tell the untold story of new york, to remind people what happens down in d.c. impacts every single person that a calls this nation home, that this is an abnormal state of affairs here in the land of the free system and home of the -- free and the home of the brave, and you can't have an open border. we're telling everyone across this country to get behind this race to help spread the word that we can send the tip of the spear packing. and if we do that, we're going to make sure that come november 8th charles ellis schumer's going to have to go find his fist job in his entire life. manufacture r. maria: more we've been talking this entire hour about all the fires in this country that that need

well, schumer just became the latest on that list to not go all in.s been your response to whether biden should or should not run? >> i'm not focusing on that. right now, if the election were held today, we would pick up a few seats. we're doing great. so please focus on the 2022 elections and let's deal with the presidency after that. >> he won't go there. what is going on here joe? why is joe biden having so much trouble getting up supporters for another term? >> well, you know, griff, chuck schumer is the majority leader right in the senate? he also agrees with an overwhelming majority of democratic voters. recent cnn polls 75% three in four democrats do not want joe biden to return for what would be a sequel because i guess the prospect of an 86 year old joe biden in office, and that's all he would be if he won a second term and stayed until the end is a prospect very few members of his own party are embracing because we're seeing the late 70s version of this president now and it's getting uncomfortable to wachlt i just find it amazeing that chuck

schumer deserves enormous credit here. he kept the lines of communication open with manchin, and then once he had manchin, he was able to focus on sinema and address her concerns about taxation. schumer deserves an enormous amount of credit here. you have to give chuck schumer a lot of props for working his members. that's what he does. he may not be the greatest floor leader in history, but he's damn good with his members. >> yeah. hey, mike allen, tell me, what's happened over the past couple weeks? can you put it into perspective? i go back to reagan's early days in the early part of his administration, passing a lot of bills. when is the last time we have seen so much legislation get through, especially in this very, very partisan washington, d.c. environment? >> that's right, joe. we could debate whether biden was trying to be more like lbj or fdr, but they both had such better congressional majorities than he did. so this was a real henry ending, who switched before the midterms. someone pointed out this inflation re

senator chuck schumer of new york joins us live to talk about all of it. sir, thank you so much for being with us tonight. i appreciate you making the time. >> hi, rachel. it's goods to be back. it has been a while. >> it has been. >> and you are back under circumstances i could not have previously imagined. i need to get your reaction from the news from south florida that the fbi has searched the home of the former president. >> i know nothing about it other than what i read like everybody else so i think it is wise for me to withhold comment until we learn more. >> i appreciate. that i do have to tell you that one of your not colleagues but another congressional leader, the house republican leader kevin mccarthy just made a statement online, about the fbi executing the search warrant at the former president's home, he said when republicans take back the house, they will conduct immediate oversight of this department, and then he says this, quote, attorney general gerland preserve your documents and clear your calendar. effectively threatening attorney ge

schumer is taking advantage.who got sick from burn pit exposure democrats snuck in a gimmick that opens the door for $400 billion in unrelated spending. when republicans in the senate blocked that version of the bill democrats sent stewart to raise. no one trust schumer our bidens so they had john do the dirty work and he did a pretty good job. he made his rounds and he followed schumer's talking points for the most part but in one of his appearances he slipped up and admitted there could be some unrelated spending. >> there isn't unrelated spending. they say there could be if there wasn't oversight but that is the senate's job. >> jesse: there's a reason most of the country doesn't trust congress. they can't get anything right. you want them to give free rein over $400 billion while inflation is at a 41 year high? we don't need story to tell us that. there's a paper trail. congressional budget office or jump from 283 billion to 667 billion because of the little gimmick. come on. we can afford to spend all this c

how do you plan to take down chuck schumer? trump's fingerprints on everything that has gone wrong in politics. forty-two years of man has been in congress, six before that in the new york state assembly and has gained power in her name the only person it has helped is charles. we are here to tell the untold story of new york to remind people what happens down in dc impacts every single person that this is an abnormal state of affairs in the land of the free and the home of the brave and you cannot have an open border on the southern border and expect we will have an america that is promised. we tell everyone across the country to get behind the recent help spread the word and if we do that we will make sure come november 8 charles schumer will have to find his first job in his entire life. maria: it is interesting. with this entire hour we have talked about all the fires of this country that need to be put out from the economy teetering on recession, to wide open border and crime and homicides and foreign-policy giving an edge

take a listen to what chuck schumer said earlier today.. >> the inflation reduction act will not, no matter how much our republican colleagues argue will not increase taxes for any family making less than $400,000 a year. >> charles: sir, you went through the numbers. if you could speak to your colleague, what would you tell him right now? >> that's a poor pinocchio performance. the fact checkers say what he's saying is false. there are scorekeepers on capitol hill, the joint committee on taxation being one of them, which is the one that sets the standard, the gold standard. it's not me. it's not senator schumer. the facts will speak for themselves. this idea that this massive tax increase will just somehow be absorbed by corporate america when they will pass the costs along to consumers and make inflation worse. this is really a pig in the poke. i home senator sinema and our other democratic colleagues say no. >> charles: in the last few days, i've seen recordings of president bill clinton talking about what a recession is, two back-to-ba

he broke with the former schumer aidewho broke with schumer because he didn't think thedemocrats weredoing enough .so to some extent , this is the long arc of how thingshave gone . federalist society, very effectively has been fighting this fight since the reagan years. but, and harry reid opened the door to federal judges other than the supreme court by using the nuclear option as we know to take away the ability to filibuster. so what could they have done? not that much. but i want to make one distinction here. and i looked this up, this was kind of interesting. we all think of mcconnell running through every federal judge he could in the 4 years of trouble and he did . jimmy carter in his one term had more judges confirmed that donald trump did. so presidents come, presidents go. carter had appellate judges, more than trump did. what's changed is the supreme court. what's changed is the confirmation of three radical right-wing justices. and in that regard the democrats didn't do very well and it shows the polarization of the country that those justices could be confirmed. but i'll

will say, he seems to have immediately forgotten shaking hands with senate majority leader chuck schumer really interesting reporting from politico. i was reading this through the lens of wanting to be on the record, i think president biden is running, because not running -- and that people involved in the planning of his campaign -- that step four biden, potential political rivals inside and out. he's no lame duck, meaning getting squashed at the midterms, there will be blood in the water, announced this quickly. >> >> i do not want joe biden to run again. >> i think he has that time to become president, and once you do, do you really give up that power? this is great politics. you have to announce right away. it's harder for kamala harris and other effective candidates to announce against a sitting president. then, the question becomes what the press does. they are accurate and fair. continue to cover for him and run for reelection, or they push him out for someone else to step in. >> really interesting line from politico. that's the hardest race, track and field. an early move for the

looking at the long game which means they do not pay enough attentionwh and then he broke with schumeruse he didn't think the democrats were doing enough. so tos some extent and then very effectively and then to the federal judges other than the supreme court by using the nuclear option to take away the right to filibuster. so what could they have done? not that much weight all think funnel for your social. jimmy carter and his one term had more judges confirmed and donald trump so presidents come and go carter had district and appellate judges more than trump. what has changed and with that regard the democrats did not do very well with polarization that they can be before i attack mcconnell's full utterly unprecedented. the ramming through of amy coney barrett eight days before the election it is most antidemocratic act i have ever seen. >> going back to 2015 with mcconnell. [laughter] >> spoiler alert. i am anre old guy. you in a together our old guy so we go back a long way with history. i was in thepr mondale presidential campaign 1984 wrote speeches about the importance of the su

we are going to hear about today's actions from senator schumer. let's listen. then >> provided the largest investment in clean energy ever, in american history. for every child deprived of clean air in a neighborhood where they can play quite safely outside away from small again exhaust fumes, this bill will help reverse air pollution and help cleanup communities that have been endured the shadow of a congested highway in industrial say. and, as the most significant action of climate change ever, it will help deliver our children and grandchildren the planet they deserve. the inflation reduction act was written with the american people in mind. families, struggling to pay the bills, kills kids who struggle with ads on pollution, seniors who can't afford lifesaving medications. this bill is for them. for many years, many in washington promised to address some of the biggest challenges facing our nation. only to fall short. many have talked about the need to act on climate change, they need to hold drug companies accountable, they need to make the tax code fairer

but, the bill schumer and the democrats just passed this weekend dwarfs even that.ut they just passed of the biggest climate legislation ever. also for the first time in 30 years of trying, the democrats finally passed a bill to negotiate lower drug prices. they'll have a new spending cap prescription drugs, and also caps insulin prices for people on medicare, to. it would've kept insulin prices for everybody, but republicans block that, which is astonishing. but this huge new bill, it's called the inflation reduction act. it's the latest in a string of winds for senator schumer and the democrats, and the biden administration on top of the really good jobs news in recent days, on top of the steady and sustained drop in gas prices, on top of the huge counterterrorism strike killing the head of al-qaeda. just in the last six weeks in congress, this congress passed the first bipartisan gun reform in decades. also, a huge bill on our competitiveness with china, and a big veterans health bill which republicans initially tried to block, the one about burn pits exposure, t

chuck schumer had zero votes to spare. nancy pelosi has four votes to spare.arger majorities struggle to do things half as ambitious as this. and i'm not talking about what whether what's in the big is good, bad or indifferent. that's for voters to decide. and for partisans to decide. but the scope of this bill is huge and the margins in both chambers are narrow. so just given that basic fact, it's a huge victory for pelosi and schumer and for joe biden, just because he's going to be able to sign this into law. they are executing on his vision, a vision he laid out in the 2020 campaign. the larger question is how does this play in front of an electorate that's tired of covid, facing rising food prices, rising gas prices for the last couple months, although they are falling now. this is going to take awhile for people to feel, does this give voters confidence that democrats should still be in charge of the house and senate and we'll see about that in less than 100 days. >>> for a sense of how members of the house are feeling about the vote, the congresswoman is

but the bill schumer and it kms just passed this weekend dwarves even that.just passed the biggest climate legislation ever. also in the first 30 years of trying the democrats passed a bill to let medicare negotiate drug prices. they've also got spending caps so nobody on medicare will pay more than $2,000 a year on prescription drugs. also caps insulin prices on people on medicare, too. it would have capped insulin prices for everybody, but republicans blocked that, which is astonishing. this huge bill called the inflation reduction act, it's the latest in a string of wins for senator schumer and the democrats and the biden administration on top of the really good jobs news in recent days, on top of the steady now sustained drop in gas prices, on top of the huge counter terrorism strike killing the head of al-qaeda. just in the last six weeks in congress this congress passed the first bipartisan gun reform in decades, also a huge bill on our competitiveness with china and veterans health bill republicans initially tried to block, the one about burn pit expos

schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, over the last five days we've seen what president biden and a democrat led congress are focused on getting done. bringing terrorists to justice, lowering costs, reducing inflation and the deficit, helping out our veterans, and better competing with countries like china. i want to begin with a word on last night's strike. last night, president biden reported that the united states conducted a strike that targeted and killed ayman al-zawahri, the notorious mass murderer, the leader of al qaeda and one of the sick planners of the september 11 attacks, which in new york and around the country and world we are still mourning. the strike against alza was harry is a -- al-zawahri is a major victory for the united states and will make our country and world a safer place. it also helps bring an element of

senator schumer said they will begin work later on it today with a vote. the weekend is expected for both on unlimited amendments. all votes, including final passage, only require a simple majority. meanwhile, majority leader hoyer has put leaders on notice that the house will be called back into session friday, august 12 to consider the bill if the senate completes its work. read the congressional budget office analysis of the democrats' plan at c-span.org and follow the senate live on c-span 2 or with c-span now, our free video app. >> remarks now from senate jordi chuck schumer during a briefing on capitol hill -- majority leader chuck schumer during a briefing on a vote on climate change come inflation, energy costs, and taxes. the leader said he secures the last vote after negotiating with

host: chuck schumer yesterday. it is the inflation reduction act expected to be voter -- voted on by the end of this week. here are some of the provisions. it would allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it would extend affordable care act subsidies through the year of 2025. it would get some $370 billion for private change. -- climate change. new funding to expand irs enforcement. you heard from senate majority leader chuck schumer. this is the statement from senate minority leader mitchell, from that period. he said, "the last time democrats decided to remake the party on economy lines, they let to the inflation -- rough inflation in 40 years. democrats have proven they do not care about middle-class family priorities. they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to prove it. for working americans, they have failed --." referring to the upcoming 2022 elections. some headlines from political media. breitbart.com, the headlines " republicans more -- warned that democrats will pay the price" the huffing

he had his concerns, he took them to senator schumer, senator schumer got him to yes, then he took them to senator sinema, she had her concerns. this is actually how the process works. i think people were giving them a lot of grief for t but i don't know why we're upset that a senator sat down and read through 725 pages, looked at the areas that they wanted to improve on, made the changes, got some compromise and then we all got to yes. we have a big tent party. look, monday night when they have their leadership meetings you have elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, and joe manchin and mark westerner, that's a big tent. you sad kyrsten sinema in there, this is how we get things done in washington, everybody has to compromise a little bit and i think this bill was made better by both of our old bosses. >> if i just might add to that i couldn't agree with john more on that point. the democrats have often prided ourselves on being a big tent party. senator manchin represents a state that's very different than senator sinema and it's okay that there are democrats to feel differently about d

president biden: yesterday i spoke with both senator schumer and manchin and offered my support for historic agreement to fight inflation and lower costs for american families. it will be the most important investment, not hyperbole, the most important investment we've ever made in our energy security and developing cost-saving and job-creating clean energy solutions for the future. it's a big deal. also for first time if a long time, begin to restore fairness to the tax code. by making the largest corporate nations -- largest corporations in america pay their fair share, without any new taxes on people making under $400,000 a year. experts, even some experts who have criticized my administration in the past, agree that this bill, this bill will reduce inflationary pressures on the economy. this bill will in fact reduce inflationary pressure on the economy. it's a bill that will cut your cost of living and reduce inflation, lowers the deficit. it strengthens our economy for -- in the long run as well. this bill has support of climate leaders like former vice president al gore who said the bi

well, he had secret talks with senator schumer. he said and schumer said today it's because of all the pressure after he backed out that came on to joe manchin. sen. schumer: joe manchin and i had some really heated arguments. and, as he said, i turned the dogs on him when he backed off the agreement a week ago -- two weeks ago thursday. but we always showed each other respect. and you have to understand he's -- west virginia is not new york. lisa: so this was a matter of the relationship there that manchin had with schumer. but, also, we had some drama yesterday when senator kyrsten sinema had an issue with the bill even as it was about to face a vote. how did they g around that? another important face in all of this, senator ron wyden, the chair of the finance committee. his staff managed to find $30 billion to help plug that hole that was a problem yesterday, and his staff had a huge part in writing this bill, a really major achievement for him and democrats, who -- many staffers have been working on this for well over a year. j

care legislation -- and whether it will deliver on its promises -- with senate majority leader chuck schumer. and, outreach in africa -- secretary of state antony blinken visits multiple african nations in an effort to counteract chinese and russian influence. >> my worriy is that this strategy will just reproduce those same old dynamics rather than bring about genuine partnership between the u.s. and various african nations. judy: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪ >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by. >> for 25 years consumer cellular has been offering no contract or list plans designed to help people do more what they like, our u.s.-based customer service team can help find the plan that it's you, to learn more visit consumer cellular.tv >> and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour including kathy and paul and camilla and george smith. >> fostering informed and engagecommunity is, more at kf.org. ♪ >> this program was made possible for the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your

schumer gave a press conference following the vote, and he said this of the victory: >> as you know,s been a long, tough, and winding road. >> stephen: ah yes, the long, tough, and winding road. it's everyone's favorite beatles song, next to a "hard day's very difficult nighttime." schumer praised the hard work of senate democrats: >> i just want to again thank the leadership, hard work, and persistence of all of my colleagues, their teamwork, their spirited teamwork. their knowledge that we had to pull together to get something done is awesome to me. not awesome in the way the kids use the word but in the sort of biblical sense. >> stephen: (as schumer) "yes, this bill is awesome. not in the way kids use the word. they would say it is straight fire, fam. to be quite frank, it slaps, and i, for one, stan. by which i mean, stan eisenberg, my podiatrist. he'll take those corns right off, no cap." ( cheers and applause ) according to schumer, it wasn't just the 'awesomeness' of senate democrats that got them across the finish line. he had a secret weapon: >> okay, does anyone notice any

>> think were going to get some news in the next hour for majority leader chuck schumer.e think we're going to have a vote to proceed to start on this bill sometime after 7:00 p.m. tonight. the early word here and capitol hill is maybe this passes between four and 8:00 a.m. majority leader chuck schumer said the senate will stay in session until they pass the bill. that locally comes over night or early sunday morning. some gop members claim democrats could show up to vote even if they have covid. >> note, and oh please. republicans are concerned about democrats showing up with covid? the republicans who would not wear masks? the republicans who tested positive and still showed up? i am telling you, they note no limits on their political damage. >> the bill takes a long time to pass, that is because an extended vote series, centers will vote on amendments one after another for this goes on for hours on end. republicans are threatening to drag this out. quick sooner or later members have either had their fill on their pet ideas, or they're facing a lot of irritation and fr

dagen: a new bill from shy you her and manchin -- schumer and manchin that raises taxes and does notlation. a new study shows the inflation reduction act of 2022, surprise, surprise, will not reduce inflation, finding that the act would cause inflation to slowly rise until 2024 before then sliding. researchers having, quote, low confidence that the legislation will have any impact on inflation. the bill also aims to raise taxes by $327 billion, those are new taxes, bringing the total deficit to $300 billion. deficit reduction, this is according to senate democrats. joining the conversation all morning long, former wisconsin congressman, fox news contributor, sean duffy and michael lee strategy founder, michael lee. good to see both of you gentlemen. sean, it's astonishing to me that the democrats, schumer, manchin, want to raise taxes and spend hundreds of billions of dollars more when we are being gripped by stagflation. >> you know, it's a really good point, dagen. $700 billion of additional spending, then $400 billion of it goes to he global warming. i want to make a quick point.

schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitsed to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions introduced earlier today, senate res. 744, senate res. 745, senate res. 746. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed en bloc. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate veterans affair committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 3606, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 3606, a bill to amend title 3

what percentage of the time is he voting with chuck schumer and biden, do you know?oing to be interesting, right now he's trying to walk away but he's voted with him 96% of the time. you can't walk away from that, you can't walk away -- voted with him 96% of the time and now you come around trying to pretend you're trying to help georgia. all you've ever done, you voted against georgia 96% of the time. invited him to do a discussion, the lincoln-douglas discussion on why he's voted with a biden for 96% of the time. know that as well. it's time for raphael warnock to get back into georgia, quit being with the washington elite and prove what he believes. >> sean: we are going to be watching, i hope you debate him a lot of times. >> tell everybody go to teamherschel.com, let's get him out of this seat. >> sean: we appreciate you being with us herschel walker. we have a lot coming up on the program, we have a call -- breaking, tudor dixon won the michigan primary which we had predicted a little bit earlier in the program, that results just came in. that was president tru

i think schumer is a capable leader dealing with the challenges of a 50/50 senate a polarized situation and i think that he's just he's done sick considerable things in the way of accomplishments and probably made some mistakes as well. so we'll give that we don't have the the two parties that are closer together than they than they were a generation ago. what if anything can be done about what i describe? it's majority and minority rule. well, i've tried in in the book and articles before i've tried very hard to encourage the relatively small group of independent-minded minded republicans or more moderate republicans. to be their best selves to come forward and join biden and the democratic senators in moving the country forward and occasionally that happens with the infrastructure bill etc. so i think i'd like the republicans to show more independence from their leader. doesn't happen very often. my answer beyond that is i'd take away as many things as i could that have interfere with majority rule in the senate. i would get rid of the filibuster i would get rid of holds which have tu