Schumer vows to keep Senate focused on Build Back Better ‘until we get something done’
The Senate majority leader also plans to take up voting rights legislation in January.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2021The Senate majority leader also plans to take up voting rights legislation in January.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2021Some of the ‘West Virginia citizens’ in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce ad thanking Sen. Joe Manchin for opposing the bill are not just constituents.
By Josh Israel - December 17, 2021The expanded child tax credit is set to expire next week. Policy experts say that would cut off critical aid to tens of thousands of Virginia families.
By Nick Vachon - December 08, 2021The poll also found overwhelming support for the bill’s other provisions.
By Josh Israel - December 01, 2021His change of heart was revealed at a town hall one day after Senate Republicans blocked a bill to expand voting rights.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 2021The Freedom to Vote Act would block a number of voter suppression laws — but Senate Republicans just killed it.
By Emily Singer - October 20, 2021President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan enjoys broad support in key states.
By Josh Israel - September 14, 2021Democrats scaled back the For the People Act to get moderate members of their party on board. But it still faces a Senate filibuster.
By Emily Singer - September 14, 2021Advocates of filibuster reforms are counting on Democrats to stay united as they gear up for a summer showdown.
By Associated Press - June 26, 2021The legislation would bolster laws in 35 states that punish those who back the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
By Josh Axelrod - June 24, 2021Democratic leaders expected Tuesday’s vote, and their efforts to pass the bill will continue.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2021Hundreds of legislators are pushing Congress to pass H.R. 1, the For the People Act, despite its paltry odds of victory in the Senate.
By Josh Axelrod - June 22, 2021Democrats in Congress are reportedly willing to agree to a smaller version of Biden’s American Jobs Plan now if they can pass their other spending priorities through reconciliation soon after.
By Josh Israel - June 14, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement comes as opposition from a key Senate Democrat puts the bill’s future in doubt.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021Besides members of the GOP, President Joe Biden appeared to call out Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, both of whom have frustrated their party.
By Associated Press - June 02, 2021He called the bipartisan commission to probe the violent Jan 6. attack a ‘purely political’ exercise to hurt Republicans in the midterms.
By Emily Singer - May 25, 2021The president of the United Mine Workers of America said ensuring jobs for displaced miners is crucial to any infrastructure bill taken up by Congress.
By Associated Press - April 20, 2021He hopes that saying nice things about Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will convince them to let him block their agenda.
By Josh Israel - April 15, 2021The new Georgia election law ‘simply says we’re going to remove things that we saw you use to your benefit,’ Stacey Abrams said.
By Associated Press - April 12, 2021Many of the old wells and mines are located in rural communities that have been hard-hit by the pandemic.
By Associated Press - April 03, 2021Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said that the filibuster has a ‘death grip on American democracy.’
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2021The Interior Department oversees the nation’s public lands and waters and leads relations with nearly 600 federally recognized tribes.
By Associated Press - March 03, 2021Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) looked the other way when Donald Trump tweeted nasty insults and baseless conspiracy theories.
By Emily Singer - February 24, 2021Explicit protections for intersex people are included in the bill.
By Casey Quinlan - February 23, 2021McConnell refused to allow the transfer of power over a demand that Democrats let him block every bill.
By Emily Singer - January 26, 2021Even after Trump personally targeted him for removal, West Virginia voters re-elected Sen. Democrat Joe Manchin.
By Oliver Willis - November 06, 2018Red state Senate Democrats have every reason to vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court — and nothing to lose if they do.
By Emily Crockett - July 31, 2018Republicans are struggling in a West Virginia district they won by 50 points in 2016.
By Eric Boehlert - June 21, 2018Don Blankenship is back, and he plans to be Republicans’ worst nightmare.
By Matthew Chapman - May 21, 2018Mitch McConnell and his allies are cracking down to try to stop a convicted criminal from winning the Senate nomination against a red-state Democrat. And it is getting ugly.
By Matthew Chapman - April 17, 2018