Democrats struggle to define bills they can’t agree on: The Note

As a pivotal week in Congress begins, Biden and Manchin are openly warring with each other about what should and should not be in the massive social spending bill.

The TAKE with Rick Klein

It was a quote that earned an almost immediate spot in political infamy, and it may be relevant again.

"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a gathering of local officials back in 2010, amid a messy endgame in passing Obamacare.

More than a decade later -- with Pelosi in the job she lost in part due to backlash from that last legislative push -- Democrats are again engaged in an extended intra-party fight to enact a president's agenda.