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16 Mar 2021
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that while he doesn’t know if President Joe Biden agrees that there should be a general exemption to the filibuster for voting rights legislation, there is no question in his mind that Biden would pick the John Lewis Voting Rights Act over the filibuster.
After Clyburn said that he believes there should be an exemption to the filibuster rule for voting rights legislation, host Don Lemon asked whether Biden thinks the same way.
Clyburn said, “I don’t know that he feels that way, but I’ve made sure that I’ve explained it to all of his staffers how I feel about it.”
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As President Biden weighs who to nominate to lead the Office of Management and Budget, one name continues to rise above the others: Shalanda Young.
Young checks several boxes for a potential Biden budget chief and has deep ties to Congress, where she has spent more than 14 years working for the House Appropriations Committee, becoming the staff director in 2017. Young would also be the first black woman to lead the OMB, which is a plus to an administration that has touted a commitment to diversity.
The 43-year-old Capitol Hill veteran was born in Louisiana and grew up as a child in the 1,500-person town of Clinton, which she described in a 2019 interview with