Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is moving full steam ahead on getting the budget reconciliation bill that comprises President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan to the floor, despite the demands from Sen. Joe Manchin to delay, delay, delay. What’s more, the House will include a provision that Manchin opposes: four weeks of paid family leave. “It had been my intention throughout this process to put on the House Floor and pass a bill that would pass the Senate in the same form,”  Pelosi informed her colleagues in a letter Wednesday morning. She announced that the text of the legislation would go to the Rules committee Wednesday. “Because I have been informed by a Senator of opposition to a few of the priorities contained in our bill and because we must have legislation agreed to by the House and the Senate in the final version of the Build Back Better Act that we will send to the President’s desk, we must strive to find common ground in the legislation.” That said, the opposition of one Senator isn’t stopping the House. “As we are reviewing priorities and at the urging of many Members of the Caucus, I have asked the Ways and Means Committee for its legislation for Paid Family and Medical Leave to be included in this morning’s hearing,” she said. “Chairman Richie Neal and the Committee staff have worked on this priority for a long time and were ready.” Read more