By Susan Jones | February 3, 2021 | 5:41am EST
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was among the 50 Senate Democrats who voted on Tuesday to advance a $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill using budget reconciliation which requires only 51 votes for final passage.
The Senate voted 50-49 to proceed with the budget resolution, but later, Manchin told Fox News s Bret Baier that while I voted to start a process, he will insist on bipartisanship as the process moves forward.
What I have told everybody and I made it very clear, from the president of the United States to all of my colleagues we re going to make this work in a bipartisan way. My friends on the other side are going to have input, and we re going to do something that we agree on.
In uneasy truce, House Republicans fail to punish Greene or Cheney
By a vote of 145-61, Republicans chose not to strip Representative Liz Cheney of her position as the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives.
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Republican U.S. House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a news conference in Dallas, Georgia, on Oct. 15. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans opted on Wednesday not to punish newcomer Marjorie Taylor Greene for incendiary comments, including support for violence against Democrats, and turned back an attempt to oust a leader who had voted to impeach President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (Feb 3): President Joe Biden told congressional Democrats on Wednesday he would not back down on including US$1,400 cheques for struggling Americans in his Covid-19 relief plan but would consider tighter limits on who gets them, lawmakers and aides said.
Biden held a conference call with House of Representatives Democrats and talked with Democratic senators at the White House as the party prepared to use a procedural maneuver to push Biden s US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through without Republican votes if necessary. We did have a conversation about the direct payments and how those might be modified in a way to ensure they re targeted, Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Biden s home State of Delaware, said as he left the White House Wednesday morning.
Members of Congress say final goodbye to Capitol Police officer from N.J. killed during pro-Trump riot
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 03, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (left to right), walk past the remains of Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, 42, as he lies in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 3, 2021.Getty Images
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Members of Congress paid their final respects Wednesday to slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, the South River native who lost his life when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 in a failed attempt to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
Former state Sen. Erica Smith is mounting another campaign for the open seat, and at least three other Black women are said to be possible contenders: former state Supreme Court judge and 2020 congressional candidate Pat Timmons-Goodson, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley and state Sen. Sydney Batch.
State Sen. Jeff Jackson, a white man, entered the race at the end of January, and state Rep. Rachel Hunt, a white woman and political scion who won a Trump district in 2018, did not close the door to a Senate run.
Some Democrats in the state hope party officials in Washington will stay out of the nominating process this time after the DSCC’s chosen candidate came up short in 2020.