Kyrsten Sinema Leaves DC While Holding Up The Infrastructure Bill
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), one of two Democratic Senators who are holding up passage of the Build Back Better agenda, has left DC for the weekend.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), one of two Democratic Senators who are holding up passage of the Build Back Better agenda, has left DC for the weekend.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) has demanded that an expansion of Medicaid that Democrats want to pass as part of a $3.5 trillion spending plan must include the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal agencies, including Medicaid, from paying for abortion expenses. “Yeah, we’re not taking the Hyde Amendment off. Hyde’s going to be on,†Manchin told National…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised NBA players who refuse to get vaccinated but supports taking away the same healthcare right to choose from women.
Speaker Pelosi made it clear that she has no patience for any Democrat who might vote against raising the debt limit.
Sen. Tom Cotton wants to run for president in 2024, so he claimed that a Senate hearing on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket is a conspiracy.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is planning to object to a unanimous consent request that would allow Democrats to raise the debt limit with no Republican votes.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will seek to pass an increase of the debt limit by a majority vote on Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader McConnell said that there will be no Senate Republicans voting to raise the debt limit.
Speaker Pelosi took no prisoners as she used Mitch McConnell’s own words on the debt ceiling and default against him.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked during a Senate hearing, which voter ID laws are racist, and the witness told him Texas.
Former Republican Treasury Secretaries have been meeting with Mitch McConnell to convince him that destroying the US economy is a really bad move.
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said that Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul should have to testify before the 1/6 Committee about their role in Trump’s coup.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) kept trying to put words in the Homeland Security Secretary’s mouth, and he failed.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on the Senate floor that Republicans block the Freedom to Vote Act, Democrats will pass it on their own.
Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer announced a continuing resolution that will suspend the debt ceiling through December 2022.
Trump hatched a plot to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but he was rejected by Senate Republicans.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pleaded for Democratic Senators Manchin and Sinema to block the infrastructure bill.
Senate Democrats are calling out Mitch McConnell for using debt ceiling sabotage to stop President Biden.
Domestic terrorism inciter Sen. Josh Hawley has jeopardized national security by threatening to block every State and Defense nominee unless the Sec. of State and Sec. of Defense resign.
President Biden sees right through the political game-playing of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and uses the presidency to cut to the chase.
Sen. Ron Johnson claimed that he was worried about detachment from reality and then refused to hear facts on Afghanistan from Sec. of State Blinken.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that he would not vote for a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill but backpedaled when asked to name his number on CNN.
At a Wednesday morning press conference, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer rejected Sen. Joe Manchin’s call for a strategic pause on the reconciliation bill.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) took a private flight to Kentucky, where he made a brief afternoon stop in Mitch McConnell’s home state. What is Manchin up to?
Sen. Ted Cruz reacted to the federal extension of COVID unemployment benefits ending by telling the unemployed to get a job.
Sen. Joni Ernst was hit with a blistering fact check after she tried to claim that President Biden hasn’t shown gratitude to the troops.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that the Senate should hit the pause button on the reconciliation bill, in comments that mean nothing.
At an event in Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told his own party that President Biden will not be impeached.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) admitted that Donald Trump legitimately lost Wisconsin and explained that Republicans turned the state blue.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went off the rails while trying to criticize Biden on Afghanistan and couldn’t say cataclysmic.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refused to criticize Govs. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott for their COVID spreading policies.
A new poll has found that both Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio have small leads and support under 50% in Florida. The poll from Future Majority found: DeSantis leads potential Democratic nominee Charlie Crist 49% to 45%, and potential nominee Nikki Fried 49% to 44%. – 51% of voters say DeSantis “cares more…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is skirting federal anti-nepotism law by giving jobs to the kids of his cousins.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) who has presidential delusions, called for the 25th Amendment to be used on Biden, then begged Biden for a Florida disaster declaration.
The Aiken County, South Carolina Republican Party voted to censure Sen. Lindsey Graham because he voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
The DNC has announced an expansion of this successful initiative “to address and overcome efforts across the country to make voting more difficult and burdensome.”
At a press conference, Senate Majority Leader Schumer told Democrats that they have no excuses on voting rights and everything is on the table to pass the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell praised President Biden for the infrastructure bill, in what was a clear message to Trump.
YouTube has suspended Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) from its platform after he claimed that wearing a mask is an ineffective safeguard against Covid-19. “This resulted in a first strike on the channel, which means it can’t upload content for a week, per our longstanding three strikes policy,” a YouTube spokesperson told CBS News in a…
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), criticizing him for supporting a bipartisan infrastructure package that is set to the pass the Senate. “Nobody will ever understand why Mitch McConnell allowed this non-infrastructure bill to be passed. He has given up all of his leverage for the big whopper…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who has received the COVID vaccine, said he would be introducing a bill banning all mask mandates.
Standing on the same ground that was attacked on 1/6, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed on the Senate floor that Trump has a right to plot a coup.
Sen. Rick Scott humiliated Trump by refusing to call him the leader of the party and giving him no credit for Senate Republican fundraising.
President Biden is staging his own operation warp speed, except he is getting judges confirmed and seated at a fast pace.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Republicans that they can agree to either pass the infrastructure bill quickly or stay in session.
Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI) expressed optimism that Senate Democrats are going to pass President Biden’s American Families Plan.
Republicans got a reminder of how foolish their opposition to masking is as vaccinated Sen. Lindsey Graham tests positive for COVID.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) brushed off Jordan’s involvement with Trump on 1/6 and criticized Speaker Pelosi for booting him from the 1/6 Committee.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) attacked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for wearing a mask and shield in the Philippines, where they are required.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) complained that public health officials are too concerned about public health, as he seems to want people to die of COVID.
Mitch McConnell’s opposition to raising the debt ceiling is not surprising, but he is trying to use the tactic to slow down Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden.
Dr. Anthony Fauci told Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that he doesn’t know what he is talking about during a Senate hearing.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the outrage over Republican voter suppression phony and argued that Americans don’t want voting rights bills.
In a move that sounded like a tantrum, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Republicans to leave Washington, DC to block the Senate from passing infrastructure reconciliation.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested that Republicans be allowed to kill more Americans with vaccine misinformation and doing otherwise is trampling on free speech.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is in Texas for a fundraiser with wealthy Republican donors from the fossil fuel industry.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tried to bumblingly play culture warrior but failed spectacularly while defending bigoted chicken joint Chick-fil-A.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Sens. Cory Booker and Ron Wyden have released the draft of their bill to federally decriminalize marijuana.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will be meeting with the Texas Democrats who left Texas to plot strategy on passing a voting rights bill.
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives. They hold a narrow majority in the Senate. They have the White House. And up until last week, they actually believed they could make common cause with republicans for the good of the republic. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch “The Grim Reaper†McConnell said the quiet part…
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wi) showed why the people of Wisconsin need to rid themselves of him by calling climate change bullsh*t.
While meeting with business leaders in Kentucky, Mitch McConnell called it wildly inappropriate for the government to spend money on Biden’s priorities to help people.
The Lincoln Project has released a new ad mocking former President Donald Trump for his beef with Senate Minority Mitch McConnell (D-Ky.) and declared McConnell the actual leader of the Republican Party. “Does Mitch call the shots now, Donald?” the narrator of the ad asks. “He says he runs the Republican party, the party you built….
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) supports Democrats passing their own reconciliation infrastructure bill without Republican votes.
Sen. Mitt Romney discredited Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen and made a broader argument for ignoring the former president.
Sen. Lindsey Graham was the first to cave to right-wing pressure, as he tantrumed that Biden made the GOP look like “f*cking idiots” on infrastructure.
One of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ signature issues when running for president in 2016 and 2020 was single-payer healthcare; i.e. “Medicare-for-All.” Most countries offer healthcare as a human right to all its citizens. The United States is an outlier. Of the 25 wealthiest nations, we are the only one that fails to do this. Thanks to…
Majority Leader Schumer dealt a death blow to McConnell’s attempt to block Biden’s agenda on the Senate floor.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that he disagrees with Republicans on not changing the Trump tax cuts for the rich, and signaled support for Democrats passing infrastructure alone.
After Republicans blocked voting rights and election reform legislation from advancing, Majority Leader Schumer vowed this isn’t over.
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) said that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) lacks courage and doesn’t show up to fight for Florida.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that legislation to protect the right to vote rigs elections for Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer got emotional on the Senate floor as he discussed voting rights and Trump and the GOP’s destruction of democracy.
Iowa voters have had enough of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as 64% responded that they want someone new in the Senate.
Fox News hosted Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Sunday and gave him a platform to spread more deadly COVID vaccine lies.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)Â said that Democrats changing the filibuster rules would be extortion and asked them not to do this to him.
Sen. Marco Rubio dishonestly suggested that President Biden committed an impeachable offense by pausing military aid to Ukraine.
Former Sen. Doug Jones said that Sen. Joe Manchin is realizing that Republicans aren’t going to work with him on protecting voting rights.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked about Sen. Joe Manchin’s voting rights compromise, and he said no Republican would support it.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has indicated to his fellow Democrats that he is open to supporting several key provisions of the For The People Act.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a meeting of the Senate Budget Committee to begin the process of passing a filibuster-proof infrastructure bill.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that if Republicans win back the Senate before 2024, he will block any Biden Supreme Court nominee.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) couldn’t hide her happiness over the bipartisan infrastructure plan keeping tax cuts for the rich and cutting COVID relief funds.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the Senate will be investigating DOJ spying on Democrats and will subpoena former Trump AGs Barr and Sessions.
Sen. Ron Johnson, who has been labeled a Russian asset by his congressional colleagues claimed that President Biden is a socialist Marxist.
Speaking to Fox News, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) evaded the question of whether he would “welcome” former President Donald Trump’s involvement come midterm elections in 2022. “Well, he has his own agenda,” McConnell said of Trump, before proceeding to criticize the Biden administration. “And my view is we’re going to focus on this…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spun a tale of woe on the Senate floor as he tried to blame President Biden for not falling for his infrastructure sabotage.
Former Senate aide Brent Budowsky, who was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and former Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), criticized Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and the Republican Party in an op-ed for The Hill, referring to them as “enemies of democracy” who are blocking the Senate from passing crucial voting rights legislation….
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that it is already illegal to discriminate against a voter based on race while opposing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and a group GOP Senate Trump loyalists wrote to the DOJ and wanted to know why black protesters aren’t being prosecuted like Capitol attackers.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urged the Senate to approve a bill that would constitute the largest expansions of voter protections yet, dismissing the objections of Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), who vowed not to vote for the measure on partisan grounds and highlighted problems with the Democrats‘ ability to pass major legislation with a…
Senate Majority Leader Schumer is looking to restore balance to the courts, and his first step is to recommend two voting rights attorneys to be federal judges.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will use a series of votes next week to show Democratic holdouts that the filibuster must go.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) falsely claimed that Joe Biden paid for rockets that attacked Israel, and said the President stands with terrorists.
President Biden knows that Mitch McConnell won’t agree to an infrastructure deal, but the negotiations are all about keeping Democrats on board to pass the bill alone.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called out Republicans for caving to political fear and said the American people deserve better after the GOP blocked the 1/6 Commission.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer announced that the Senate vote on the 1/6 Commission will happen on Friday afternoon.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) was a House impeachment manager for the 1/6 impeachment and he says McConnell is hiding devastating evidence against Trump.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell has increased his pressure on members of his caucus to vote against the 1/6 Commission.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accused Democrats of trying to litigate Trump through the midterm election, which was a projection of his own fear.