It's Friday, May 28th. I'm Heela Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what today where we are finally kicking off our

campaign to get Ratatouille the musical, it's much deserved Tony nominations.

Gideon, I think it's definitely too late. I mean, they already announced the nominees.

And furthermore, I don't even think it was close to being eligible.

Okay, I'm big enough to admit we could have planned this better.

On today's show, Senate Republicans are expected to block a bipartisan commission to investigate

the January 6th riot at the Capitol, plus we'll have headlines.

But first the latest. Like when we brought electricity to every household in the country in 1930s,

or we connected the country through the interstate highway system in the 50s,

they created millions of jobs, good paying jobs.

They set the con after growing more quickly and share prosperity more broadly for decades to come.

Yeah, so that was President Biden in Ohio yesterday making the case for the country to reinvest

in that kind of infrastructure that he is talking about. When he said that they did that in the 30s,

there was a part of me that thought, was it him in particular?

Right, right. We saw that.

But I let that subside.

But cutie, we haven't checked in on the president's proposed $1.7 trillion infrastructure bill in a long time.

And we are now reaching the self-imposed deadline of Memorial Day that the White House had set for

negotiations. So let's break down where things are at the moment beginning with this Republican

counter-proposal yesterday.

Yeah, this was the big talk of the town. So West Virginia, Senator Shelley Capito presented the

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