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Oct 08 2021
News
Manchin Rips Schumer for Attacking GOP Lawmakers
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., ripped Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for bashing Republicans after the Senate passed a bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling through early December.
Schumer had made his comments in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday.
"Republicans played a dangerous and risky partisan game, and I am glad that their brinksmanship did not work," Schumer said
Newsmax (News)Mar 06 2022
News
There’s new momentum in Congress for a climate bill, but a lot of questions on what it could include
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has cracked open the door for negotiations on a slimmed-down version of President Joe Biden’s climate and economic bill following months of little progress on the issue.
Manchin outlined his counteroffer this week, confirming that climate and clean energy provisions will be some of the few original pieces of Biden’s original Build Back Better
CNN DigitalAug 13 2021
Fact Check
Biden and Buttigieg Overstate Jobs Impact from Infrastructure Bill
President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg overstated the impact of the bipartisan, Senate-approved infrastructure bill on job creation, likely citing instead an economic forecast that includes the much larger and partisan “human infrastructure” bill.
An economic analysis by Moody’s Analytics found the bipartisan bill “supports only a modestly stronger economy.” The
FactCheck.orgSep 22 2021
Analysis
Why Democrats desperately need to cut prescription drug prices
Democrats can’t do much on health care if they don’t cut prescription drug costs.
Democrats had big dreams for health care reform this year. In the forthcoming budget reconciliation bill, they planned to cover millions of uninsured people and offer dental and vision benefits to people on Medicare, while also cutting prescription drug costs.
But now those grand ambitions are
VoxAug 12 2021
Opinion
Democrats’ infrastructure gamble actually seems like it could be working
Earlier this summer, Democrats announced that they’d be taking a circuitous route in their efforts to pass major new funding for infrastructure, something they’ve dubbed the “two-track” plan.
Effectively, they planned to do two things in parallel: work to advance a bipartisan infrastructure bill containing provisions Republicans and Democrats agreed on (like money for roads and bridges
VoxSep 21 2021
Analysis
Senate Rules Didn’t Dash Dems’ Mass Amnesty, They Did (But Amnesty Might Still Survive)
The sweeping change would grant permanent status and legal residency to an estimated 8 million people at a cost estimated at $140 billion.
The Senate’s parliamentarian appeared to dash Democrats’ mass amnesty dreams Sunday, issuing an opinion that the rules for a budget reconciliation bill — a privileged legislative vehicle that can be passed with a simple majority — don’t encompass
The FederalistAug 24 2021
Analysis
They Don't Have The Votes: The Far Left's $3.5 Trillion Boondoggle Is on Life Support
The Afghanistan fiasco has put a major Biden initiative on life support: the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. This is the so-called human infrastructure bill that is pretty much a lefty goodie bag. No, it is—it’s a Happy Meal of communism. This bill, plus the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package is about to be blown up as Democrats’ intraparty warfare has become increasingly ugly
TownhallOct 15 2021
News
Biden's soft touch with Manchin, Sinema frustrates Democrats
A growing number of Senate Democrats are getting impatient with President Biden’s kid-glove approach to negotiating with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
Biden’s approach has involved a lot of facetime and personal attention, but little in the way of public concessions or discernible movement.
After talks on the scale and scope of the Democrats’ $3.5
The HillOct 07 2021
News
Biden wobbles on the filibuster, again
President Joe Biden's evolving position on the filibuster temporarily opened the door for Senate Democrats to change the chamber's rules so they could raise or suspend the country's debt ceiling without Republicans or reconciliation.
But with centrist Democrats, such as West Virginia's Joe Manchin and Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema, publicly against filibuster reform, Biden can support
Washington ExaminerJan 29 2021
News
Pelosi says House will take first step toward passing Covid relief next week, with or without GOP
The House will forge ahead next week with the process that would allow Democrats to pass a coronavirus relief bill without Republican support, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
The California Democrat said her chamber will move to pass a budget resolution, the first step toward approving legislation through reconciliation. The process would enable Senate Democrats to approve an aid
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