pat toomey stood up there -- i am sorry, patriot pat toomey, i want to give him his propers. they are going to use $400 million to spend on that. that is nonsense. the overseas contingency operations fund, $60 million, $70 million, every year on top of 500, 600, $700 million. >> barbaric. >> and now they're going to go away. pat toomey says i have veterans groups behind me. i call bs. wounded warriors, dav, they are all here. this is the veterans community senator. they don't stand behind you, in fact, you won't let them stand in front of you. cowards, all of them. cowards, all of them. and now they say this will get done. maybe after we get back from some of -- from our summer recess, because they are on senate time. senate time is ridiculous. these guys live to 200. they are tortoises. they live for ever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose anything. they are not on senate time, they are on human time, cancer time. don't you have families? don't you have people? people who are deciding how to live their last moments? they spe

pat toomey stood up there patriot pat toomey, i'm sorry, i want to give him his propers. i want to make sure i give him his propers. patriot pat toomey stood on the floor, this is a slush fund, they're going to use $400 billion to spend on whatever they want. that's nonsense. i call bullshit. this isn't a slush fund. you know what's a slush fund, the o.c. o., the overseas contingency operations fund, $60 billion, $70 billion, every year on top of $500 billion, $600 billion, $700 billion of the defense budget, that's a slush fund, unaccountable, no guard rails. did pat pooly stand up and say this irresponsible, the guard rails, no. not one of them did. they vote for it year after year after year. you don't support the troops, you support the war machine. that's all you care about. >> he personally signed the proclamation to send me to war. >> they haven't met a war they won't sign up for and they haven't met a veteran they won't screw over. what the fuck are we? >> barbaric. >> barbaric. >> and now they're going to go away. pat toomey says, i got veterans groups behind me.

it should say patriot pat toomey.n moniker. >> so his amendment is the one we're talking about, this is all held up over he says -- his amendment addresses how this $400 billion can be spent. he says as it's unrelated, the money can be used for things not for veterans. >> that's nonsense. the v.a. secretary still has to go in every year and explain the appropriation and the use. and the spending of the money is related to the bill. it's not a slush fund. but if you want to talk about slush funds, if senator toomey wants to explain his fiscal conservatism, why it is that he voted, you know, every year we vote for what's called the oco, a $70 billion fund that goes on top of the $600 billion or $700 billion that the pentagon already gets. and it's unaccountable. there are no guard rails. it truly can be spent on pretty much whatever they want to spend it on it. toomey's never raised a peep about it. never raised his hand. he's never objected. he's never held up the defense bill because of it. and the fund is the hit ral

to be enough for senator toomey.pass this time? are there enough republicans who voted for the bill in june, voted against it last week, are going to vote for the bill like senator daines might be an example? >> when you reference the vote in june, when 84 senators voted for it, there had been one change since then. just a single change related to something completely unrelated to this issue that we're -- they somehow have insisted at the last minute here be debated. so, if everybody does what they did before, this has 84 votes. so, i think they should just get on with it, have the vote. >> one separate matter, 24 senate democrats sent you a letter this week urging you to allow abortion services at veterans hospitals and analysis by the national partnership for women found nearly 400,000 female veterans of reproductive age live in states certain or likely to ban abortion. will the va take this measure and allow abortion services at va hospitals even in states where abortion is banned? >> thanks very much for the ques

pat toomey will join me. >>> plus, vote for vets. senate republicans spark outrage. >> i'm used to the lies. i'm not used to cruelty. >> can the bill pass this week? dennis mcdonagh will be here and the changing globe. heat waves and natural disasters raise pressure to act on the climate crisis. with some falling short, will it be too late? i'll ask the new australian prime minister in his exclusive first u.s. interview ahead. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering if political tides may be turning. president biden is back in isolation this morning after testing positive with a rebound case of covid after being treated with paxlovid, though his doctor says he no longer has any symptoms. this time biden does have some good news to mull over. first, the bipartisan passage of the bill to boost competition with china on the manufacturing of semiconductors and second a sudden possible deal in congress on a massive plan to begin to tackle the climate crisis, high drug prices and address big compa

the senator from nevada, welcome, along with ranking member toomey. last thursday, i invited our witness, fta administrator nuria fernandez to columbus to see the excitement in the community as they plan to build one of the best bus rapid transit networks in the country. columbus is growing, if we pass the chips act with intel's and conductor production in central ohio. it will grow even faster. investments from the infrastructure bill will help central ohio prepare for more people, expand service, connect more ohio winds with exciting job opportunities with new bus rapid transit. we visited the wall street, sorry, not wall street, sorry, banking committee. we visited the west broad street corridor with -- i know that, i've been on that street, i used to live half a mile from there. we visited the west broad street corridor with coda ceo joanna pinkerton. we saw the opportunity for vast bus service to downtown columbus that will spur more development and new affordable housing along the route. columbus is not alone. cleveland are t. a. has entered the

does pat toomey have a point here? >> pat toomey is going to get an amendment. he'll have a vote on that. pat, come on, let's go. let's put it out there, put the facts out there. pat is a good man, good friend of mine, i'm sorry he won't be running again, he's leaving the senate, he's been a quatyr o th represented pennsylvania extremely well. he's been a friend. we're going to work through this. i haven't seen the amendment. i'll be briefed tomorrow morning on it and everything. but pat's going to get his amendment and let's see where it goes. >> on that, senator joe manchin, thank you for being with us. "face the nation" will be back in a moment. stay with us. so your camera cae in the dark with night sight fix your photos with magic eraser photograph all skin tones accurately with real tone and last up to 72 hours with extreme battery saver it's all you want in a phone. google pixel 6a switch it up, and get the all new google pixel 6a. so, you're 45. that's the perfect age to see some old friends, explore new worlds, and to start screening for colon cancer. y

the senator from nevada, welcome, along with ranking member toomey. last thursday, i invited our witness, fta administrator nuria fernandez to columbus to see the excitement in the community has a plan to build one of the best bus rapid transit networks in the country. columbus is growing, if we pass the chips act with intel's and conductor production in central ohio. it will grow even faster. investments from the infrastructure bill will help central ohio prepare for more people, expand service, connect more ohio winds with exciting job opportunities with new bus rapid transit. we visited the wall street, sorry, not wall street, sorry, banking committee. we visited the west broad street -- i know that, i've been on that street, i used to live half a mile from there. we visited the west broad street corridor with coda ceo joanna pinkerton. we saw the opportunity for vast bus service to downtown columbus that will spur more development and new affordable housing along the route. columbus is not alone. cleveland are t.a. has entered the capital investme

i stand by the offer, we will give senator toomey a right to bring his amendment to the floor and tryo get the votes for it. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> 60, just like the bill. [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal" every day we're taking your call live on the air on news of the day, and we'll discuss policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, missouri republican congressman jason smith who's also a member of the budget committee had been on to talk about the economy and the federal reserve's decision to raise interest rates. then, we'll discuss efforts to expand the supreme court, january 6th committee developments and the economy with georgia democratic congressman hank johnson. watch "washington journal" live at seven eastern friday morning on c-span or on c-span now, our free mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. ♪ >> earlier today assistant attorney general matt olson talked about threats to our nation's security. the house judiciary committee hosted. watch tonight at i 9

go to pat toomey's office, call him right now.e on the hill and get it through immediately because it may not get through before they go on summer break and then let's get to the issues because there's a whole line behind them ready to come as well. >> doing interviews from the vince lombardi service areas on the turnpike on his way home. >> i'm not ashamed to say i have a bladder. i have to pull over every now and again. >> they have a good roy rodgers there, as i recall. before i let you go, let me ask you about the future of this. we heard chuck schumer saying on monday, he'll bring it up for a vote and he believes he'll pass and republicans saying, yeah, we'll pass it and we'll get the money to go -- >> but again -- >> frankly because of the noise you made, so is it going to happen? >> again, willie, when we say we want to clear this up. what do they mean? do they mean clear up the way that the bill is paid for that was in the bill on june 16th when they voted yes? like, what do they mean by clean up? this is not a gimmick. it

they are the ones who are going to decide if trump is the nominee, not mitch mcconnell or pat toomey.here is -- trump is losing some support among his base based on what i'm hearing because of these hearings, but it's not because they disapprove of trump's behavior, they just think this is going to make it more difficult for trump to win in '24. >> we should point out a -- pat toomey isn't running for reelection, right? he has -- he voted to impeach trump. he has the latitude to go out on a limb and say this. it's not even going out on a limb for him. so does it matter, though, if republicans are talking privately and they're not coming out publicly? does that even matter as long as they're sort of saying, oh, this guy is kind of weak? >> brianna, i have to watch my language and, john, i can't say what i really want to say. i am so damn sick of republicans talking privately or anonymously. none of that stuff matters. i mean, look at 26-year-old cassidy hutchinson, look at what she's done this week. i mean, five years ago i came out and publicly called out trump and if i had a dollar f

what is your response, rosy, to pat toomey? disgusting for him to play partisan politics. these are lives. i think if he had a child or a spouse in the position that we're in who is affected by chemical exposure during wartime, he probably would be standing on the steps of the capitol with us. so it's disgusting, and it's just -- it angers us because we live it every day. and so i just wish that they would walk a day in our shoes to understand the reality of the war that followed us home. >> how has it been like for you, day to day, amanda? >> my husband is a 23-year army pilot. and he left the military shortly thereafter found out that he had stage 4 colon cancer. we've been through 12 rounds of chemo and he's had two major surgeries. we've been blessed to receive care at the mayo clinic in rochester. he is fighting the good fight. it's always difficult a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. you don't know what the future is going to be. each day we celebrate and we're grateful for. >> do you feel like, rosy, your husband's future surviv

chairman. >> thank you senator toomey. senator masto. >> you and i have had multiple conversations about the gateway programs in the past. bradley gateway connects new jersey to new york pennwa stati. passenger trips on porter and 50 transit is the lynchpin of the entire northeast corridor a region that accounts for 20% of the gdp of the nation. a capitol investment program grants program is the primary federal lending source for phase 1 of the gateway program which includes building a new portalmi in northridge which is critical from boston to washington. the existing century-old tunnels were badly damaged a superstorm sandy. he hired her shape the biden at a stretch and support to the project which assigned a full funding agreement with fda and the work has been done to move the hudson river time of project the fta's report released in a recommend for the first time the hudson river tunnel project received funding in fy23. administrator can you speak for a moment aboutor the importancef the hudson river tunnel project an

so pat toomey, the republican from pennsylvania, his amendment addresses how this $400 billion in thel can be spent. he says as it's written the money can be used unrelated to veteran. >> that's nonsense. >> and burn pit exposure. >> it's utter nonsense. nothing matters to them. nothing penetrates that bubble that they live in of procedural [bleep] there are real people who face tragic consequences for their parliamentary [bleep] >> jesse: whoa there, little fella. i like that kind of passion but what are we talking about here? my producers told me jon is on a press tour saying republicans are blocking a bill that would help veterans who got sick from toxic burn pits in afghanistan and iraq. but, before we can figure out what was going on, stuart was on every channel, cnn, msnbc, the home shopping network. all the hosts totally unprepared but along for the ride. if jon stuart wants to come on their show last minute drop f bombs and bash republicans for not supporting the troops. book it last night stuart asked us if he could come on "primetime" but we had a being pad show. we had to c

now, pat toomey doesn't want to have a vote. they have offered his amendment which is a poison pill amendment. they have offered a vote at the thing same threshold and what pat toomey is saying, no, no, no, i want unanimous consent just in the bill. >> while they are doing this, veterans with cancer are sick and some are dying. what are you hearing from them? >> it is heartbreaking. it is utterly heartbreaking. a lot of these folks are already living in three month increments. basically, they live from scan to scan. they get a good scan and that is three months that i'm going to feel pretty good about myself and maybe go through my treatments until the next scan. the idea that the senate is so removed from the day today real lives of their constituents and those that they purport to honor. remember, these are veterans. this is a community where they stand and wave the flag and they support the troops but when it comes down to it, they betrayed them. this is a betrayal. this bill passed the house and it passed the senate. there w

now, toomey says he does not want the amendment to have a vote.fered a vote, a poison pill amendment, they offered a vote at the same threshold they had to overcome. and what toomey is saying no, want to unanimous consent just in the bill. >> while they are doing this, though, jon veterans, with cancer, are sick and some are dying, what are you hearing from them? >> it is heartbreaking. it is utterly heartbreaking. you know. a lot of these folks are already living in three months, they live scan to scan. a good scan, hey, man, that is three months that i am going to feel pretty good about myself maybe go through my treatments until the next scan. the idea that the senate is so removed from the day to day real lives of their constituents and those that they report to honor. remember, this is a veterans community, this is a community they stand and they wave the flag and they support the troops and they got the flag pins when it comes down to it, they betray them. this is the betrayal. this bill passed. it passed the house and it passed the senate.

pat toomey took orders from mitch mcconnell.ands if not millions of veterans are now going to pay the price. many of them are going to die waiting. i'm trying not to show emotions today, andrea. if you want to bleep me, that's fine. but my heart breaks for those veterans. on june 16, we won. we passed the bill 84-14. for them to do this now and then say they are going to go on their vacation and then come back and we will get it done, that's cruel. jon said he is used to a lot of things but not the cruelty. i'm used to the cruelty. i don't have to put up with it. america doesn't have to put up with it. we are going to scorch the earth. we're going to -- 41 of those -- 25 of those 41 people voted yes on june 16. they fell in line and they all -- many of them are veterans. they all voted against this. they have no reason why. they are going to feel the pain, the suffering. we're going to make their life miserable. we are human beings. those men and women who stood out there today in the heat with oxygen tanks and cancer while the

i don't think most people know who pat toomey is. and not in the media much and he's the perfect guy to put it on until fetterman in the fall. a lot hope you won't notice and that you're not paying attention and you'll think the democrats are making something out of nothing here. every major veterans group, the dov, and many of them that lean right have been out in front of this and have been supporting this and i believe six republicans also supported this, so i think we have to make him famous and ted cruz is a great example. ted cruz, i mean, his brand equals cowardice and time and time again he shows us that he doesn't give a damn about everybody and i'm baffled that texas can't find anybody better than ted cruz in the senate. that's who they have to work on, in my opinion. >> we all are. i want to ask you to in back monday whether schumer brings it up again or not because you've been talking about this really for as long as you've been coming on and some of this is on us for not focusing on it a head of this bill. so why don't y

and pat toomey never had a problem with that.nd never had a problem spending billions of dollars to send these people into harm's way. >> one of the things you said today, we just played you saying, you said you're used to the lie, the pip cracy and the cowardice and you're -- hypocrisy and the cowardice and you're not used to the cruelty. i watched you in the 2000s, covering the gop, and the george bush republican party every night, and how extreme do you believe this current republican party is compared to that one? >> i mean look, you know, i have different issues with different areas, what i was referring to was there was a group of people who came home from war, a traumatizing event to begin, with and whether they fought for this country, to defend the flag, or to fight for freedom, or because it was their only choice between that and prison or drug treatment program, it doesn't matter, they lived up to their obligation in this country. they lived up to their oath, and when they came home, they found that the consequences of

. >> senator toomey, senator rob portman, was heath's senator. voted no!hey voted against my family! they voted for all of us to suffer! every single one has pictures with veterans on their facebook pages, on their websites. well screw that! they don't support veterans! if you vote no on this bill you do not support veterans! i am done! and the next time i come back here, it better be to sign the damn bill at the white house! because i'm sick and tired of this bull [bleep]! >> standing alongside heath robinson's mother in law, at that press conference, is a face you might recognize. comedian jon stewart who has used his platform and fame to push for a number of veterans health bills. and he turned up on capitol hill today to call out the gop senators voting against that bill. >> i am use to the lies. i am use to the hypocrisy. i'm used to the cowardice. i've been here a long time. senate where accountability goes to die. these people don't care. i'm used to all of it. but i am not used to cruelty. cowards all of them! cowards all of them! they haven't met

we've recently seen additional subsidies, fiscal policies that senator toomey mentioned in his opening statement but in particular, the monetary policies of the federal reserve stop in addition to keeping interest rates low, they had a quantitative easing that in buying $30 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month. why they chose to allocate 30 billion dollars capital to the mortgage market, i don't know that it had the unmistakable impact of fueling demand in the housing sector and house prices appreciating came with it stop that's about to reverse the one thing we can expect in a stressed housing market over the next year or so is the fed's reserve -- reversing course and rates will be higher. we've seen the impact on that already. they will also unload about 35 billion dollars per month of the mbs, essentially switching the impact on the mortgage market and that will have a big impact. the fed needs to do this. if you look to the consumer price index, shelter is about third of the consumer price index. if the fed wants to hit a 2% target and shelter is inflation is at 6%, ev

is the problem recently we have seen additional demand subsidies the fiscal policies that senator toomeyed but in particular those monetary policies of the federal reserve in addition to keeping interest rates very low with low mortgage rates with a quantitative easing the $30 billion of mortgage-backed securities with $30 billion of capital i don't know but the unmistakable impact of feeling demand in the housing sector. looking forward that is about to reverse some enormously stressedss housing market over the next yearr or two the fed is reversing course and rates will be higher and then unloading $35 billion a month but switching by $65 billion with the net impact on the mortgage market but the fed needs to do this if you look at the cpi shelter is one third inflation is up five.6 percent and rising through january 2021 hitting a target and shelter inflation at 6 percent everything else has to be at zero. so the fed needs to bring down shelter price inflation and increasingly raise rates until it does. there's also a traditional channel from monetary policy toow lower demand and lowe

i think pat toomey has some reasons to do with budget policy and that is one thing, but if the votesuse mitch mcconnell said we need to screw somebody, that would be terrible. judy: jonathan, what you say about the so-called burn pits legislation? jonathan: in a word it is appalling. to what david was talking about, just in june, this bill passed out of the senate with 84 votes. 84 went to the house. e house made a min change and that's why it was back in the senate for a vote. 25 republicans who had voted for it in june after senator pat toomey worked on them, opted to vote against the bill. pat toomey's arcane problem was finding was being moved from discretionary within the bill to mandatory. he was calling it a budget gimmick. you know who doesn't care whether it is a budget gimmick? those families jon stewart was talking about. the veterans who worked in the burn pits and are suffering the ailments. the families of those veterans who are sick and/or have died. it is their families who are dealing with the financial burdens of jon stewart was talking about. they could not care le

doctor ippolito and professor hyman, senator toomey mentioned a few statistics. i just want to make sure i'm right and see if there are other indicators we should be following. a little bit less than 1% of medical debt is in collections, is that right? >> i'm not re percent of medical debt in total. >> i think it is somewhere around 0.9 3% of all households that. only about 8% ultimately gets collected. one number i am curious about is the medical debt is reduced substantially about 40% since 2009. you would logically think some of that tax with the implementation of the -- expansion of medicaid. are there any other things that would've potentially contributed to the reduction in medical debt over that period of time? >> broadly speaking, i am sure that the economy from 2010 to now has to have improved but we are seeing there, and other outcomes on credit reports. >> professor hyman, when you are talking about if his credit reporting is no longer taken into account as a predictive indicator, i think you said something to the effect of they would respond, that len

. >> pennsylvania senator pat toomey urged fellow republicans to block the bill saying it allowed for $400 billion in spending unrelated to veterans care jon stewart responded to toomey last night on msnbc. >> it's a rediculous argument, nonsense the va secretary has to submit every year to congress, the house and smat, both appropriations committees what the spending is going to be and what it's going to revolve around >> majority leader chuck schumer says the senate will hold another vote on the bill on mondayr laws take effect across the country more physicians are raising alarms about being able to provide proper care for their patients courtney allen of wsmv talked to a few interests about this gray area >> it's going to put us between a rock and hard place. >> reporter: dr. katrina green treats things like ectopic pregnant, which if left to grow could rupture and kill the mother now in fear of being prosecuted some doctors may hesitate to act. >> what are we supposed to do? do we wait until it's too late and get sued by the family and rightly so or do we do, you know, our job, w

. >> this morning one of the senators who blocked the bill pat toomey defended the action this morning. >> this is the oldest trick in washington. people take a sympathetic group of american, and it could be children with an illness. it could be victims of crime or veterans who were exposed to toxic chemicals, and craft a bill to address their problems and sneak in something unrelated that could not pass on its own, and dare the republicans to do something about it, because they know they will unleash the allies in the media and maybe a pseudo celebrity to make up false accusations to just swallow what shouldn't be there, and that is what is happening here, jake. >> and joining us is jon tester of montana the bill's sponsor and the chairman of the veterans affairs committee, and what is your response to the senator of pennsylvania who is saying that you are trying to pull a fast one. what is your response to that? >> pat toomey is a friend, and a smart guy, and to the bottom line, this is not a fast one, and the same bill that we passed on the 16th of june, and it should be passed agai

doctor ippolito and professor hyman, senator toomey mentioned a few statistics. i just want to make sure i'm right and see if there are other indicators we should be following. a little bit less than 1% of medical debt is in collections, is that right? >> i'm not sure what percent of medical debt in total. >> i think it is somewhere around 0.9 3% of all households that. only about 8% ultimately gets collected. one number i am curious about is the medical debt is reduced substantially about 40% since 2009. you would logically think some of that tax with the implementation of the -- expansion of medicaid. are there any other things that would've potentially contributed to the reduction in medical debt over that period of time? >> broadly speaking, i am sure that the economy from 2010 to now has to have improved but we are seeing there, and other outcomes on credit reports. >> professor hyman, when you are talking about if his credit reporting is no longer taken into account as a predictive indicator, i think you said something to the effect of they would respond, t

. >> bret: here is how they explain it take a listener to senators thune and toomey. >> the white house this up so the house had to pass it again. sent it back to the senate. what pat toomey is attempting to do is do something that should have been done the first time it passed in the senate and that is to fix the way this bill was funded in a way that makes the bill not only stronger but hopefully much more fiscally responsible. >> what it really comes down to it's about congress hiding behind an important veterans care bill a massive unrelated spending binge. >> bret: what do you say to that? i don't know what to say it's utter ridiculousness. don't take my word for it read the bill. there is nothing in the bill that indicates spending about any other issue but veterans health and funding and if there was, i would not have supported it. this is all about the language in the pact act is incredibly specific that all of the funding must be spent, even the toxic exposure fund, the language is explicit about what you can spend it for. so i don't understand you have got some republican sena

what toomey is saying is no, no, no.nsent in the bill. >> while they are doing this though, jon, veterans with cancer are sick and some are dying. what are you hearing from them? >> it's heartbreaking. it is utterly heartbreaking. you know, a lot of these folks are living in three month increments. they live scan to scan. they get a good scan, hey, man, that is three months i will feel pretty good about myself. maybe go through my treatments until the next scan. the idea that the senate is so removed from the day to day real lives of their constituents and those who -- remember, this is the veteran community. this is a community where they stand and wave the flag and support the troops. they've got the flag pins. but when it comes down to it, they betrayed them. this is a betrayal. this bill passed. past the house. it passed the senate. there was a technical fix. there was one sentence about rural doctors being converted into va sort of urgent care facilities so veterans who live far from a va facility could have some ac

pointed out, it already passed. >> toomey was opposed to it when it passed 82-14. >> we only got theas $680 billion, not $280 billion in june. it was before that final vote. we all know that people don't focus on every aspect of legislation. sometimes they don't focus on it until late in the game. that's what happened here with republicans. again, i think this is going to be resolved and it will be independent of what happens to other pieces of legislation. >> one other thing, you said you think this is going to pass. pelosi's warning of land lines, warnock warns about republican booby traps. are you saying it's going to be easy? >> i don't think it's going to be easy, but i think ultimately it will pass for the reasons that i outline. now, there are very clearly going to be challenges, even the ways and means chairman, ritchie neil, is on the record being against the carried interest provision. hedge fund managers, you know, investment folks, pay a lower tax rate, like 15%, and it would just be -- so this would just be evening it out and making them pay a normal income tax rate. thi

and we're seeing that with obviously senator toomey who said it publicly.ns privately have been saying this for a while. but, also, with the number of republican donors, really the top finance people who work with the rnc over the past years, in the trump years and before, they're starting to say, you know what, i've had a little too much of the drama. and it's not about ketchup on a wall. it's about going to the capitol, knowing that they were armed, everything we've seen over the hearings. they just want to inch away from donald trump bit by bit. >> laura, we've heard privately from republicans for years who have not been supportive of or found some of the president's decisions distasteful. if they're not stepping up and that likely won't happen before the midterm, why should there be confidence in what toomey is saying, that people are going to walk away if they're not coming out publicly to talk about the president? >> yeah, i mean, just to your point, victor, privately for years all of us, a lot of reporters have heard from republicans that they aren't

so what we found out, what actually happened was, senator toomey and senator tom castro agreed on twoe amendments, but when it came to the floor to debate it, they brought ten amendments. so they were offered to amendments, or none. and the republicans chose none. because they wanted the ten. so this is just grandstanding game play in politics, by the republicans, on the backs of veterans lives. and it has got to stop. >> well, susan, i applaud you for being there fighting and representing veterans and veterans advocates across the country. your son-in-law would certainly be proud tonight. susan, i appreciate you joining us. also with, us paul -- veterans advocate and host of the independent americans podcast. in his latest episode, he talks with montana senator, jon tester, who is also on the hill with john stewart today. paul, you have said that john stewart has had your back on this the whole way. do you think this outrage is going to make any difference? >> yes. sometimes, it's the only thing that makes a difference. because unfortunately, we have been here before. this happened w

toomey says he believes there's 85 votes in the u.s.out of 100 for the underlying legislation it is a very easy fix that can be accomplished here. it should be. and if the democrats want to achieve something for veterans, make the tweak. they want to attack republicans for hating veterans and scoring political points they can keep doing what they're doing. bret: let's talk about this manchin, humans deal you heard the senator on the specifics. what is your take about where the stands and where it's going? >> i think joe manchin for the life back into the biden demonstration slate of agenda this past week. he is right it closes on the tax loopholes for there's a lot of debate about the text piece of this print does a couple of things he biden administration believes are important but allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices for example, bringing down inflation but here people like larry summers who is not always been a fan of the biden ministration policy saying this bill will actually reduce inflation in the long haul. i think there a

we will give senator toomey a right to bring his amendment to the floor and try to get the votes for it. thank you. 60, just like the bill is at 60. thank you. >> c-span's washington journal every day. we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and we will discuss policymakers -- policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, jason smith who is also a member of the budget committee will be on the talk about the economy and the federal reserve's decision to raise interest rates. we will discuss efforts to expand the supreme court, january 6 developments and the economy with georgia democratic congressman hank johnson. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on friday morning on c-span or on c-span now, our free mobile app. going the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> here's a look at what is coming up on the c-span networks. 9:00 eastern on c-span, members of the house continue work on a wildfire and drought relief bill. on c-span two at 8:30 a.m., a hearing -- live at 10:45, nancy pelosi holds a weekl

senator toomey is recognized. >> doctor holtz-eakin, to follow up on the point that you made and i think that ms. baileyn touched on this point which is in the recent years we have seen a surge in supply. does the data suggested that is true about single-family and multifamily housing? so it seems to me that especially given in light of that fact and when you look at the prices across the whole economy, a lot of the price escalation is probably a reflection of the environment where -- does that make sense and as you point out, the fed made it egregious by choosing to allocate credit in the mortgage space where there was no problem. it's not as though the mortgage market wasn't functioning. and for months and months, i argued over a year after we were well past in the crisis, they kept pumping money into subsidizing mortgages that lowered the rate of the mortgages relative to where they would otherwise be. at a time that the housing market was clearly overheating and as the economy was generally. but it certainly seems as though we still need more supply. you touched on a few of the facto

i think that with senator toomey he knows republicans are on their heels and playing defense becauset americans say we know congress doesn't agree on much but for the troops if they can't agree on something for this then what can they agree on? >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> president biden is back in isolation after testing positive for covid. the white house doctor said the president feels well and biden said he continues to work. >> hey, folks. joe biden here. tested positive this morning. working from home for the next couple of days and feel fine. everything is good. commander and i got work to do. >> he had resumed public appearances after testing negative for the virus. we'll be right back. a "let's dig in" day... >> mm. >> ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... >> mm. [ chuckles ] >> ...a "love my new teeth" day. because e your clearchoice day s the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. big game today! everybody ready? alexa, ask buick to start my enclave. star

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you heard pat toomey.e is among the gop critics who say the bill will only hurt the economy further. new york republican congressman and got editorial candidate lee zeldin joins us now. congressman, what do you think of joe manchin who seems to have enabled this bill whitney's been saying all along he did not want to go for big spending and washington packages. >> senator manchin earned a lot of credit for a long time and then he threw it away, he decided to fold with this deal. you come up with the name, here they call the inflation reduction act. can they name it the inflation reduction act, surely it's reducing inflation. that's not what it does. a clip you just played from senator toomey. on the spending side and the tax side resulted in an economic impact for a nation that just had new gdp numbers come out, the second straight quarter of negative growth, there's a lot of concern about the direction of our economy and what were actually witnessing here. yet congressional democrats to see the writing on