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Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.

Today, we are, you know, today's the first day that I previewed what we were going to talk about

on the podcast in an editor's blog post and what I, what I previewed was that we were going to talk

about before the people act. S1 or H1, S1, all these different, you know, all these different

code words and everything. And this in some ways captures some of the problem with the

public messaging, with the discussion, with the process of trying to pass this legislation

that unlike cases where a legislative push has one resonance slogan or something like that,

here we have a bunch of jargon and gobbledygook and stuff like that. And that is something that is not

uncommon when Democrats are legislating and there are a number of reasons for that.

But for the moment, let's talk about actually what happened. What happened was that

Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia, waited basically until the last minute to announce

that he was voting yes for what was in essence his own compromise version of the bill. Wasn't

technically that, technically they were starting with the original bill, but there was an agreement

that they were going to do amendments that were going to, you know, make it his version of the bill.

So he announces, you know, to great fanfare that he's going to vote for his own bill or the

compromise version that he, that he signed off on. And then predictably after they secure this

50th vote, the Republicans, the 50 Republicans in the Senate refused to vote to allow a debate

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