Day 4 of the US Winter Weather Crisis and Things Only seem to be getting worse, especially

in Texas.

Encore has a lot of tough questions to answer.

Yeah, it's not just Encore, it's Irkhard and it's state lawmaker.

A half million people are still without power and heat.

And PG&E is right in the thick of it.

But how did this happen and could the grid have been better prepared?

We need a better grid.

But now if we get this through, we will have the means to be able to bring our grid up

to speed for both capacity and for resilience.

From today's bill to tomorrow's jobs, we're looking for the government at work in our tap

water, light switches, bridges and broadband.

You're listening to Pant2 Politics Summer Series.

Inferstructure in real life.

Welcome to the second part of our Infrastructure Series.

We kicked it off with water and now we're moving on to everyone's favorite utility.

Do we pick favorites among the utilities, Beth?

I don't like to tempt faith that way because water is pretty important.

If we have to rank them, probably water is my gold and electricity is my silver.

How's that?

That's good.

And I think that's appropriate because, again, while water and the infrastructure supporting

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