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Democrats say they've learned the lessons of 2009

The current debate over the filibuster includes returning it to the days where Senators had to hold the floor for hours and hours. And Manchin says he's open to that? Huge.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia signaled Sunday that he would be open to reforming the archaic rule to make it "more painful" for the minority to wield as a tool of endless obstruction.

by Rich Smith • Mar 5, 2021 at 5:45 pm Congratulating herself for sticking her thumb in the eye of working people. Mario Tama / GETTY IMAGES Impeach President Joe Manchin: Democratic leadership has yet to find a way to deal with the senior Senator from West Virginia, who today stopped up the Senate vote on Bidens coronavirus relief package because he wanted to give less relief to unemployed people, according to the New York Times. Right now the feds...

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool We reported earlier this week about how Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was shown a 2017 tweet Wednesday from Neera Tanden in which Tanden, who is Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the OMB, told Murkowski she was “high on your own supply” over her stance on lowering the corporate tax rate. The Senator, who was shown the tweet by the Washington Post’s White House correspondent Seung Min Kim, appeared to be taken aback. And because Murkowski could be a deciding vote one ...

Corporate Lawyers Line Up for Justice Department Top Slots Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland defended hiring lawyers with Big Tech experience at yesterday’s confirmation hearing. Drew Angerer/Pool via AP Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland testifies at Monday’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This piece has been co-published with Ryan Grim contributed reporting. The first day of Senate Judiciary hearings for Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s a...

When the Senate ultimately voted to allow witnesses to be called, Grim said the House managers "became sort of like the dog who caught the car. Theyre like, Well, now what do we do? Because now Republicans are threatening that theyre going to call 200 different witnesses." Grim notes that it is not unusual for a political party that is within the minority to threaten procedural actions that would "gum up" sessions. "And so they just decided You know what, we dont actually know what were going t...

Ryan Grim, The Intercept's Washington bureau chief, warned that the ousting of a New York Times reporter over his use of the N-word sets a dangerous precedent for ind

Latest revelation could be put to use by Democratic impeachment managers.

House managers are treating Trump’s enablers as his victims.