Hi, I'm Nelly and I'm Alice and we're from Iowa City, Iowa.

This week a dad is riding his bike across the city of Iowa to the back of our.

We haven't seen him for days.

This podcast was recorded at our friend Daniel Kursley.

I've been was on that ride. It is two oh five Eastern. It is Monday, August 2nd.

It's August. It's August. What about Scott Horsley? Wasn't he on the

there? He was on there too. Scott you know Scott's off on the business desk now. I'm not going to

mention him first reference. It's may have changed by the time you hear this. I love your daddy

to in water. Let's see you this weekend. Okay, here's the show.

I do love Scott Horsley Scott. I'm sorry. And those kids were adorable. Hey there,

it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House.

I'm Claudia D. Salis. I cover Congress. And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.

So here is a moment that Claudia and other Hill reporters had the pleasure of listening for

for a very long time and it finally came this weekend. I call up the Cinema Portman

Substitute Amendment 2137. Claudia, a big climactic moment. Was it everything you would

hoped it would be? I think perhaps yes from all of those anxious awaiting minutes, hours, and days.

Yes, it was a big deal. All right. Some context here. That was Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

using Senate procedure to unveil the 2,700 page bill that is the infrastructure deal. We have

been talking a lot about two theoretical bills lately. So a reminder, this one here, which is now

an actual bill on the Senate floor is the roughly $1 trillion measure crafted by moderate democratic

and Republican senators. It deals with roads, bridges, broadband, electric vehicle charging stations.

And other things deemed in the conversational term that people use on Capitol Hill and nowhere else

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