House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and majority leader Steny Hoyer say there will be a vote in the House tomorrow on a bipartisan bill. SNELL: You know, we are getting a lot of mixed messages from leaders on Capitol Hill. SHAPIRO: Before we get to the debt ceiling, does it seem like infrastructure is going to be handled in time? NPR congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell joins us to break down what's happening. Political divisions within both parties are standing in the way of these plans. SHAPIRO: Even more pressing are talks on the debt limit and keeping the government funded. It's better than nothing, but with such momentous challenges that we face, this isn't really up to the magnitude of that challenge.Р”Р‡ADEL: Even if the infrastructure bill becomes law, this money could be months away from reaching the communities that need it. SHAPIRO: And engineering experts say even the money proposed to stop frequent and prolonged power outages is still not enough.Р”ВANIEL COHAN: I think it probably deserves about a C or C-minus, like, the grid itself. And it should not take for a whole city to get hurt for someone to say, hey, maybe we should start doing something about this. SHAPIRO: People in Flint, Mich., say money to replace lead pipes across the country is long overdue. It's challenging to get those companies to come. In Detroit, people are awaiting flood relief.Р”В¬AROL MILLER: Why is it that disadvantaged people in the city have to go into their basements several times a year to pump out, or pail out, sewage that has gathered in the basement from a storm?Р”Р‡ADEL: Communities are struggling to get adequate internet access, like at the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada. infrastructure that has been deteriorating for years, as we've heard from across the country in recent weeks. Some could impact the nation's economic standing. Lawmakers and the White House are working to reach huge deals. They don't care about reform,РІР‚Сњ said Sandy Ray, whose son died in a state prison in 2019 following a confrontation with officers.The White House says it's a precarious day in Congress for President Biden's agenda. РІР‚СљAll they want is to build these prisons. Carrying a banner that read, РІР‚СљStop the Spending Spree,' the group said Alabama had other needs in medical care and education. Outside the Alabama Statehouse, about 40 people, including some parents of inmates, protested the plan and the use of pandemic funds. The House did not vote on the sentencing bill Wednesday, effectively killing it for the short special session, after it became doubtful that there was enough Republican support to pass the bill. The package of bills also includes a retroactive sentencing change that could allow up to 700 nonviolent inmates to seek shorter sentences. The Alabama prison construction proposal calls for at least three new prisons: one with at least 4,000 beds in Elmore County with enhanced space for medical and mental health care needs a second of the same size in Escambia County and a womenРІР‚в„ўs prison - as well as renovations to existing facilities. Steve Clouse of Ozark said new modern prisons - in which prisoners would be housed in cell blocks instead of large dormitories with rows of bunks - would be a РІР‚СљfoundationРІР‚Сњ for improving the system. And if our current commissioner is somehow still working, we will still be mismanaged,РІР‚Сњ England said. Chris England said the prison plan being proposed would not translate into a better system. prisons, such as understaffing, culture, management deficiencies, corruption, policies, training, non-existent investigations, violence, illicit drugs, and sexual abuse.РІР‚СњР”Р„labama Democratic Party chair and state Rep. Federal officials wrote that dilapidated conditions were a contributing factor to what it called unconstitutional conditions but emphasized that, РІР‚Сљnew facilities alone will not resolve the contributing factors to the overall unconstitutional condition of. In a 2019 report that preceded the lawsuit, the DOJ made it clear that new prisons alone will not solve the problems. The Department of Justice last year sued Alabama, saying male inmates in the state live in prisons РІР‚Сљriddled with prisoner-on-prisoner and guard-on-prisoner violence.'

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