"On this vote, the yeas are 228 and the nays are 206 — the motion is adopted."
Loud, sustained applause from the Democratic side of the aisle as the House passes the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
13 Republicans voted for it. 6 Dems voted against it.
Comprehensive breakdown of what's in this $1.2 bill:
• Funding for roads and bridges
• Money for transit and rail
• Broadband upgrade
• Upgrading airports, ports and waterways
• Electric vehicles
• Environmental remediation
& much more cnn.com/2021/07/28/pol…
$1.2 TRILLION*, sry, they didn't pass a $1.20 bill.
"... When the issue at hand is the health of our planet and the world our children and our grandchildren will inherit, then you will have a hard time keeping me away.”
Obama slams Trump for pulling out of Paris Agreement: “I wasn’t real happy about that.”
He says “determination” of state and local governments and his own administration’s investment “allowed our country to keep moving forward, despite hostility from the White House.”
Obama on "the bad news" for leaders at the #COP26 climate summit:
“We are nowhere near where we need to be at … most countries have failed to meet the action plans that they set 6 years ago.”
Need a Saturday brain teaser? Here’s a pop quiz covering the deep dive interviews featured on Hell & High Water, Just Something About Her, and Battleground this week.
Test your knowledge and catch up on these conversations 👇
Q1: In what year did Fiona Hill become an American citizen?
Did you know that Fiona Hill was an American citizen?
Learn more about what America means to Fiona Hill as an immigrant and her time in the Trump admin on this week’s #HHW: recount.co/HHW
Father Thomas Reese on Biden/Pontiff meeting: "For the Pope to spend over an hour with a head of state, a president, is very unusual. Usually these meetings are shorter than that. So I think they are getting into a lot of issues that are of concern to both the pres & the Pope."