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The battle over the chamber’s 60-vote threshold will erupt as soon as next week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been circumspect about his use of the filibuster, leaving the tool untouched so far this Congress. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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The filibuster has been on hiatus since Joe Biden took over. Senate Republicans are about to change that over a bipartisan commission to probe the Capitol riot.
After more than four months of letting their power to obstruct lie unused in the Senate, the 50-member Senate GOP is ready to mount a filibuster of House-passed legislation creating an independent cross-aisle panel to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection. If Republicans follow through and block the bill, they will spark a long-building fight over the filibuster’s very existence.
Will Manchin turn against the filibuster if the Senate GOP blocks the January 6 commission?
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Liberals to Biden: Ditch the infrastructure talks with Republicans
Rep. Mark Pocan called the GOP’s latest counteroffer “ridiculous” and said the Republicans might as well have proposed paying for it with a “bake sale.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand takes questions during a news conference in New York, Sunday, March 14, 2021. | Seth Wenig/AP Photo
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Progressives are ready to pull the plug on President Joe Biden’s weeks of infrastructure negotiations with Republicans.
Liberal Democrats are speaking out at an awkward time, as Biden’s Cabinet officials held their latest talks with Senate Republicans on Tuesday, but many of them have already moved on from the White House’s efforts at bipartisanship. These Democrats say they re worried that by cutting a deal with the GOP on roads and bridges, they risk losing out on a generational opportunity to expand paid family leave and child tax credits and invest in green energy.