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  • Manchin won't back $2 trillion Build Back Better bill, upends Biden's agenda

    Manchin won't back $2 trillion Build Back Better bill, upends Biden's agenda

    Dec 20, 2021 04:11 PM EDT

    ... support the bill, delivered on "Fox News Sunday" after only a cursory heads-up to the president's staff, potentially derails not only Biden's "Build Back Better Act," but sparks fresh questions over passing voting rights legislation and potentially other significant bills that would require his vote in the ...

  • How the WH plans to tackle inflation, and how the Build Back Better bill may ease pressure

    How the WH plans to tackle inflation, and how the Build Back Better bill may ease pressure

    Dec 10, 2021 11:45 PM EDT

    ... have to try to, again, unsnarl the chains in the supply chain, so that the logistics can flow more smoothly, that goods can flow through the system more quickly. Now, we are having some success there. Judy, I don't think I have ever thought more about dwell time in ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on omicron variant, Build Back Better bill, midterm elections

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on omicron variant, Build Back Better bill, midterm elections

    Nov 29, 2021 11:35 PM EDT

    ... hurt inflation. No, no, no, this is just going to run up the debt. And Democrats haven't been quite consolidated behind a message of what's in it and why it's a good idea. And so the White House is signaling that President Biden is going to get ...

  • Capehart and Abernathy on Rittenhouse acquittal, Build Back Better bill

    Capehart and Abernathy on Rittenhouse acquittal, Build Back Better bill

    Nov 19, 2021 11:30 PM EDT

    ... in the media. It doesn't matter how much of a trial you watch on television. When you're a jury or you're sitting in that courtroom watching a trial, you have a different perspective of what's going on. And that jury reached a verdict. There's an ...

  • Pelosi says Build Back Better bill 'solidly paid for,' but Senate passage still uncertain

    Pelosi says Build Back Better bill 'solidly paid for,' but Senate passage still uncertain

    Nov 04, 2021 10:45 PM EDT

    ... Neither bill so far having a vote on the floor. Where do we stand? Lisa Desjardins: As of this hour, we do not know what the rest of tonight will look like. It is possible that the House could still vote on the Build Back Better bill tonight. House Speaker ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on voting rights, Build Back Better agenda, VA Gov. race

    Brooks and Capehart on voting rights, Build Back Better agenda, VA Gov. race

    Oct 22, 2021 10:40 PM EDT

    ... of that bill is now agreed to and written. I just want to bring people up to speed on what we know about it, on the Build Back Better proposal. The overall price tag is now under $2 trillion. Paid family leave is down to four weeks, instead of 12 ...

  • Calls for paid leave grow louder 30 years after passage of Family and Medical Leave Act

    Calls for paid leave grow louder 30 years after passage of Family and Medical Leave Act

    Feb 06, 2023 11:40 PM EDT

    ... and Democrats and independents, want paid family and medical leave. So, we will continue to push for it. And if we -- we came close with Build Back Better, but the good thing is that we came so close, closer than we have ever been before. And we know that it ...

  • A closer look at Biden's first year performance and why he has low approval ratings

    A closer look at Biden's first year performance and why he has low approval ratings

    Jan 20, 2022 11:50 PM EDT

    ... comes from the legislative strife, inability to manage -- get a voting rights bill across, but it's particularly BBB, the Build Back Better Act. And in that -- in my view -- I have a difference with Matt on this -- is that Joe Manchin, more than any other person in America, has ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on voting rights legislation and partisanship

    Brooks and Capehart on voting rights legislation and partisanship

    Jan 14, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... rights and on Build Back Better. Judy Woodruff: Well, that brings up what Sinema had to say, Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Jonathan, in her speech on the Senate floor this week, where they need -- they need her, they need Senator Manchin to go along with any change in the Senate rules ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Democrats' legislative setbacks, Biden's pandemic response

    Brooks and Capehart on Democrats' legislative setbacks, Biden's pandemic response

    Dec 24, 2021 11:30 PM EDT

    ... is in sort of a legislative window, meaning there's the framework that Senator Manchin agreed to with the president, and then there's the Build Back Better bill that he, as I think either David -- I think David just said that Senator Manchin stuck a knife in. Within -- in ...

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