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Mar 02 2023
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Biden to trigger tax fight Senate Democrats don’t want
President Biden will trigger a fight over raising taxes when he introduces his budget plan next week, something that Senate Democrats who face a tough road ahead to protect their majority aren’t clamoring for, especially in West Virginia, Montana and Arizona.
Democrats campaigned on repealing the Trump-era tax cuts ahead of the 2020 election but fell short after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema
The HillDec 21 2021
Analysis
The Youth Activists Who Wouldn’t Eat Until Congress Took On Voting Rights
After months of knocking on doors and conferencing with senators to advance the cause of voting rights reform, a group of young people from Arizona decided that the only way to ensure the future health of our democracy was to stop eating.
On December 6, 20 members of Un-PAC, a nonpartisan advocacy group, launched a hunger strike outside the state capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, to
Mother JonesJan 20 2022
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Democrats fail to advance voting rights law as Senate holdouts defend filibuster
Senate Democrats failed again to pass sweeping new voting protections on Wednesday, in what may be the most brutal blow yet to efforts to strengthen protections for voters at a perilous moment for US democracy.
Just as they have done four other times in recent months, all 50 Republicans united in their opposition to the measure. They relied on the filibuster, a Senate rule that requires
The GuardianSep 23 2021
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Pelosi signals she won't move $3.5T bill without Senate-House deal
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has signaled to colleagues in both chambers that she will not put the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package on the House floor for a vote until it’s clear that it can also pass the 50-50 Senate.
Some Democrats are calling for the House to move as soon as possible on the package, even if two key centrist votes in the Senate, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va
The HillDec 16 2020
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Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett’s Replacement on Federal Appeals Court
On Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate confirmed Thomas Kirsch as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Kirsch, who had been serving as a U.S. attorney in Indiana, will fill the seat vacated by Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett. The Senate confirmation vote was 51–44, and the only Democrats who voted “yes” were Arizona senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly and West Virginia senator
National Review (News)Aug 12 2022
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What’s in the Manchin-Schumer deal on climate, health care and taxes
The Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, which gained more heft after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin agreed to add back several climate and tax provisions, was passed Sunday by the Senate on a party-line vote.
It won the critical support of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who demanded several changes be made. It now goes to the Democratic-controlled House for approval before President
CNN (Online News)Jul 30 2021
News
Infrastructure deal clears another Senate hurdle as House Democrats threaten rebellion
The $550 billion infrastructure agreement cleared another Senate hurdle Friday, moving the sweeping package closer to becoming the first big bipartisan win under President Joe Biden.
But it's far from a done deal: The path is murky in the House, where some Democrats are rebelling.
The vote was 66 to 28, signaling broad support in the Senate for a deal led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema
NBC News (Online)Jan 25 2023
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Possible retirements before 2024 have Senate Democrats on edge
Senate Democrats returned to Washington to wield their newly expanded majority this week, but the specter of potential retirements in their ranks is already raising anxiety about their prospects in the next election.
Democrats will be defending a sprawling map of 23 Senate seats in 2024, and three of their incumbents are in states that President Donald Trump won in 2020 — Ohio, West
Washington PostJun 02 2021
Fact Check
Do Two Democratic Senators ‘Vote More’ With Republicans?
During an event commemorating the Tulsa Massacre on Tuesday, President Joe Biden claimed that the Democratic Party “only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
Biden didn’t name the two senators, but his comments are widely being interpreted to refer to Sen. Joe Manchin and
The DispatchJun 22 2021
News
Democrats’ sweeping elections bill poised for failure in Senate
Democrats are bracing for defeat on their sweeping elections bill being brought for a procedural vote Tuesday — after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed the bill as a “disastrous proposal” and a “power grab,” and key Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has come out in opposition to abolishing the filibuster.
The For the People Act, which passed the House in March, is arguably the
New York Post (News)