вЂњThe Vice President will work from her office in the West Wing during this time.вЂќ- Kaitlan Collins November 19, 2021 President Biden will transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris for the brief period of time when he is under anesthesia today while getting a colonoscopy, the White House says. On climate crisis action, Pelosi said: вЂњIf you care about the planet and how we pass it on, this bill is for you.вЂќ The bill is вЂњmonumental, itвЂ™s historic, itвЂ™s transformative, itвЂ™s bigger than anything weвЂ™ve ever done,вЂќ she added. Soon after, a triumphant Pelosi said at a press conference: вЂњWe will be telling our children and grandchildren that we were here this day.вЂќ вЂњThe Build Back Better Act is passed,вЂќ Pelosi announced minutes later, smiling with arm aloft, to more cheering and chants of вЂњNancy! Nancy! Nancy!вЂќ There were chants of, вЂњBuild Back Better! Build Back Better!вЂќ The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, triumphantly brought down her gavel to mark the billвЂ™s passage to enthusiastic applause throughout the chamber from Democratic members. It was the longest speech ever made on the House floor but could only delay rather than deny the inevitable. Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy had derailed the schedule to vote on Thursday by delivering a marathon overnight speech of eight hours 32 minutes. The vote went almost wholly along party lines, 220 to 213, with Jared Golden of Maine the sole Democrat to oppose it. After months of fits and starts, gridlock and intra-party warring, Democrats leveraged their thin House majority to pass the most sweeping expansion of the social safety net since the 1960s.

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