"Congress now faces a choice. Advance the entirety of an agenda that gets American families the help they need or deliver only a fraction of it. That`s why we as leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus remain committed to voting for the infrastructure bill only after the Build Back Better Act..."
"We support the Progressive Caucus in the House making sure that we now deliver on that promise."
"We need a little bit more time... we are just saying we need a couple of more weeks to be able to pull everybody together."
"We're not leaving part of the agenda behind. And we're not taking the urgency off of things like childcare, paid leave, climate change, health care, immigration."
"We have the vast majority of the Democratic caucus on board with getting these bills done."
"Let's just remember that this is the President's agenda. And the two bills comprise the bill back better agenda that the President laid out for us in front of Congress."
"We're going to pass the reconciliation bill first, as was agreed upon by the Senate, and then we are going to pass the infrastructure bill and we're going to deliver both to the President."
"Progressives will vote for both bills because we proudly support President Biden`s entire Build Back Better package. But a majority of our caucus, our 96-member caucus will only vote for the small inf..."
"I am happy to sit down with Senator Manchin or anybody else in the Senate."
"We are ready to deliver both pieces of legislation to the President's desk for the signature."
"a majority of our 96 member caucus will only vote for the small infrastructure bill after the Build Back Better Act passes."