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Greg Palast: We have to fight each one of these things case by case, state by state. Rick: It's like Whack-a-Mole. The right-wing think tanks keep coming up with one bad idea after another.

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Erik Loomis: So long as the filibuster is there, I don't think the PRO Act will pass. We also have the Voting Rights Act & other pieces of legislature coming down, putting pressure on either reforming or eliminating the filibuster.

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Bob Ney: China has been advancing, doing everything it can internally & externally. We've become shabby with infrastructure & it's time to improve it.

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Max Burns 

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Max Burns is a Democratic Strategist & Columnist at the Daily Beast

 

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Trevor Higgins 

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Trevor Higgins is the Senior Director of Domestic Climate and Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress

For more information visit: www.AmericanProgress.org

 

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Richard Ojeda, former WV State Senator, Presidential Candidate, Executive National Spokesperson, No Dems Left Behind

@Ojeda4America @NoDemLeftBehind

 

Khary Penebaker, Gun Violence Survivor and Everytown Survivor Fellow

Treasurer DNC Black Caucus 

@kharyp @Everytown 

 

Scott Dworkin, co-founder Democratic Coalition

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Max Burns:  A sign that this is going well is seeing Madison Cawthorn campaigning on a bill he voted against. 
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@thedailybeast

Trevor Higgins: We've got lead pipes that need to be replace, we have a manufacturing base that's stuck in the last century. Infrastructure is so much more than roads & bridges. We need to prepare for decades to come or we'll be in trouble.

@TBHiggins

@CAPAction

@amprog

Rep. Andy Levin

@RepAndyLevin 

Rep. Andy Levin represents Michigan’s 9th Congressional district.

Rep. Andy Levin is on the House Education and Foreign Relations committees.

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Sara Nelson 

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Sara Nelson is President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

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Sarah Burris 

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Bob Ney 

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Bob Ney is a Former Congressman from Ohio and Political Analyst

Rick Smith

 

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Rep. Andy Levin: The Labor laws that cover all private sector workers are run & executed by quasi-judicial agencies that are not political. The Labor Sec'y is more over job training, wage & Labor & other very important segments.

@RepAndyLevin

@EdLaborCmte

@HouseForeign

Sara Nelson: Put blinders on with Mitch McConnell & focus on his caucus, also on Congress. We have to force them.

@FlyingWithSara

@afa_cwa

Sarah Burris: I would make a state-by-state list of what specifically would be built/improved in the infrastructure plan. People connect better when they know what specific projects would be involved.

@SarahBurris

@RawStory

Bob Ney: McConnell probably believes the Dems will do so many "outrageous things to the left" that Repubs will be able to take back the Senate. It would be so good for the US to get rid of the filibuster once & for all.

@bobney

Jeff Hauser 

@jeffhauser 

Jeff Hauser is Executive Director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research

For more information visit: therevolvingdoorproject.org

Tim Schlittner

@timschlittner

Tim Schlittner is the Communications Director at the AFL-CIO

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Nancy Bailey 

@NancyEBailey1

Nancy Bailey is an education blogger who writes at www.NancyEBailey.com

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman

@BobNey

Bob Ney is a Former Congressman from Ohio and Political Analyst

Jeff Hauser: McConnell literally exists to make rich people happy. Dems would do well to make him the face of Repub party & steamroll him.

@jeffhauser

@revolvingdoorDC

@CEPRDC

Tim Schlittner: The ABC test for the PRO Act would only apply under the right under federal law to form a union. The ABC test would prove that you're actually an employee & can vote to form & join a union.

@timschlittner

@AFLCIO

#PROAct

Nancy Bailey: Dr. Wen had said it would be better to focus on the fall. Trying to get schools in order, get infrastructure in place, getting ventilation issues in place, working on ensuring that in-person learning is safe would be a better solution

@NancyEBailey1

@BadassTeachersA

Bob Ney: As a result of 1/6, some Republican Senators have lost corporate funding. This may lead them to vote for the infrastructure bill w/ its increased corporate tax rate.

@bobney

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