The right wing would prefer another shutdown to a stopgap extension of government funding.

The bipartisan compromise between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed with only 17 Republicans voting yes.

There could be more Black women elected to the Senate in one year than have served in the entire history of the United States.

Enough Senate Republicans to filibuster legislation say they will not back any clean debt limit increase.

A bipartisan resolution that would have recognized the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment failed to get a filibuster-proof majority.

Two Republicans joined Democrats to reject a proposal that would have limited the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer abortion care.

House Republican leaders want to cut spending from the Inflation Reduction Act in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, despite a recent poll showing public support for it.

The Union of Concerned Scientists calls wind ‘one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity.’

President Joe Biden’s 100th confirmed judicial nominee is Judge Gina Mendez-Miro of Puerto Rico.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Friday that she will leave the Democratic Party but continue to get committee assignments from the majority party.

‘It’s always better with 51, because we’re in a situation where you don’t have to have an even makeup of the committees,’ President Joe Biden has stated to stress the importance of reelecting Sen. Raphael Warnock.

‘For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect,’ the California Democrat said Thursday.

President Joe Biden said, ‘Our children and grandchildren will remember this for many years to come: this bill changes their lives and secures their future more than almost anything Washington has done for decades.’

Micron Technology said in an announcement, ‘With the anticipated grants and credits made possible by the CHIPS and Science Act, this investment will enable the world’s most advanced memory manufacturing in America.’

The law would ‘be a huge step forward in the fight to preserve a livable planet and is one we need to take while we have the chance,’ the group Earthjustice said.

The three former officials called the bill ‘the most significant piece of climate legislation in United States history.’

‘There are no new taxes on families making $400,000 or less and no new taxes on small businesses,’ says the official summary of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore stressed that the funding in the bill would be vital to fighting climate change.

Sen. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans continue efforts to block President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

The plan would close a tax loophole and raise an estimated $203 billion over a decade, which Democrats say would be used to delay until 2031 a shortfall in the Medicare trust fund.

There have been over 1 million U.S. deaths from COVID-19, and a fresh variant daily is hospitalizing over 100,000 Americans and killing more than 300.

Senate Republicans refused to let the chamber even debate the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act.  

Thanks to the filibuster rule, the GOP minority was able to block the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement and the Freedom to Vote Acts.

‘I would end the 60-vote filibuster right now,’ Cruz said in 2017. He also called the Senate rule ‘stupid.’

Fully 60% of voters see expanding voting access in federal elections as an ‘important’ or ‘top’ priority, according to a new poll.

But Republicans in 17 states made it harder to vote last year.

Senate Democrats are still negotiating a version of the climate and caregiving package that can win the whole caucus’ support.

The House of Representatives passed each of these in 2021.

The Senate majority leader also plans to take up voting rights legislation in January.

Every House Republican voted against President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan.