- CBN's Tara Mergener has the latest.

- A House procedural vote is the next test

for President Biden'ssprawling economic agenda.

The Senate has already passed both bills,

a $1.2 trillion infrastructure agreement

and a three and a halftrillion dollar budget

that would expand the social safety net

while hiking taxes on upper earners.

Closing her caucus in a letter,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

insists delays will putthe party's policy goals

for president Biden'stransformative vision

and historic progress in jeopardy.

- The vision is to build back better.

(gavel bangs)- The Rules Committee

will come to order.

- [Tara Mergener] Houselawmakers are back in DC

after a shorter than usual August recess,

the White House endorsing Pelosi's plans

for a procedural vote that wouldadvance the Infrastructure,

Social Spending and Voting Rights Plan

to be followed by a budget resolution.

- When you take this bill together

with the American Rescue Plan

and the reconciliation billthat's getting underway,

we are implementing oneset of generation policies

that will change people'slives for the better.

Housing, clean energy, dealingwith the climate crisis.

- [Tara Mergener] If herparty members stick together,

it would allow those measures to pass

without a Republican vote.

- This is the first hearing it's had

in the House of Representatives,

and it's going straight to the floor?

With no amendments by anyDemocrats or Republicans?

I think that that's a broken process.

- [Tara Mergener] Thatparty unity, however,

could be loosening.

Fearing the Budget Plancould be scaled back

Pelosi and progressiveswant that bill passed first.

Nine moderate Democrats concerned over

the $3.5 trillion pricetag are threatening

to vote against it unless theBipartisan Infrastructure Bill

is first in line.

Two weeks ago, the Senate passed

that $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Plan

with help from 19 Republican votes.

- It's been a long and winding road,

but we have persistedand now we have arrived.

- But the massive budget spendingplan has zero GOP support,

meaning it could be killed by Democrats.

To win over bothprogressives and centrists,

Pelosi has outlined a strategyto vote on the two bills

only after the Senate hasapproved both of them.

To pull it off, she could only lose

three House votes in the process.

In Washington, Tara Mergener, CBN news.