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Lower prescription drugs and help on childcare and community college and all these other things. it also will create millions of jobs, many of them tackling climate change. and its paid for. and thats a good package for the american people. we want to get as close as possible to president bidens vision and i think we can still get there. >> whats your reaction to those who say that democrats talk about this social spending bill like its a safety net program for the poor, when its really a govern...

Have written the storm before the calm which, i think, jonathan, im going to steal for the title of my memoirs. its too perfect. >> excellent. >> david, lets listen to what joe manchins former aide said, he has been on this program. he says, dont assume hes gonna vote anyway until he actually cast his vote. jonathan kott said in an interview, i went with him to almost every vote and there were times when he made up his decision when he walked onto the floor. that is true of every senator, a cert...

Little bit is because, i think there is a sense that we are heading to an agreement here both -- in both packages. so at the end of the, day theres gonna be no suspense. chuck schumers gonna have his. votes nancy pelosi will ever votes. she is skilled as anyone we have ever seen a sin in that country in the country says. so theres a lot of choreography going, on a lot of discussions. but im gonna go with, jonathan and the price tag, whether its three point, five or, three whats important is what...

An infrastructure deal has been reached, but the balance of power in the Senate is evenly split, and Donald Trump wields a lot of power over Republicans. Jonathan Kott, a former staffer for Senator Joe Manchin says, “I would be skeptical, too, but I think there’s a better chance that this list grows to 70 senators [in support] than it sinks to 59.”

Virginia which was titled, why im voting against the for the people acts. >> as i said to him, i read the op-ed he left the door open -- >> all you talk to him about it? >> right in. >> today, the group of optimists gathered in charleston west virginia and march to joe manchins office. theyre, led by reverend william barber in a letter to senator manchin from the group they urge the senator to support before the people act and asked him to use his power to open up, quote, a new path for justice ...

Conservative state for the most part. manchin has crafted his political career in the middle of not getting too far to the left and too far to the right and i have to tell you despite this rally today theres not another buzz on the for the people act in west virginia. west virginias the last couple of elections have been very smooth. there havent been any issues. so the issue isnt getting much traction here so im sure that manchin who is great political instincts feels like hes on the right side...

Manchin, the vacillating 50th vote in Democrats control of the Senate, has become perhaps his partys most contentious figure.

The senator has become a lightning rod in his party and a major obstacle to President Biden’s agenda. In his home state, his stubborn belief in bipartisanship is recognized as the core of his being.

NationofChange FEC sued for not cracking down on dark money group that opposed Sanders’ presidential run Erin Chlopak of the Campaign Legal Center said that this “is yet another example of the agency’s dysfunction and its disregard for the campaign finance laws it was designed to oversee.” The Campaign Legal Center on Wednesday filed suit against the Federal Election Commission, charging that the regulatory agency has failed to enforce the law against a group tha...

How the trial got to no on witnesses Updated: February 14 Print article WASHINGTON - The debate among the House impeachment managers raged through the night, as the hours and then minutes ticked down early Saturday before what was widely expected to be the final day of former president Donald Trump’s Senate trial. After weeks of bending to political pressure to ensure a speedy proceeding, some on the House team wanted to make one final, furious push to demand a more intensive investigat...