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After President Biden made his second visit in as many months to the Capitol on Thursday in his latest attempt to move his legislative agenda closer to the finish line,
Senate Republicans blocked debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act and were scarcely made to explain themselves.
Doktor ZoomMarch 05, 2021 04:59 PM Jamie gave you this Sleepy Kitten The Senate's consideration of the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill appears to have gone off the rails this afternoon, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) apparently giving serious thought to a really bad Republican amendment on emergency unemployment that would almost certainly be unacceptable to most other Senate Democrats. Jesus Christ, Joe, we thought we already told you to just pass the goddamned thing. You never listen to us. Is it personal? As we noted earlier today, Senate Dems had already accepted one change fr...
Twitter If the Democrats would just get it together and pass the very popular planks of their policy program, the conservative movement would be in some trouble. This seems like wishful thinking, both because history tells us the "if" there is doing so much work, and also because the Republican Party, despite its manifestly unpopular policy agenda, has remained competitive in state and federal politics for years now thanks at least in part to its ingrained structural advantages—some longstanding, as with the Senate, and others cranked up to 11 in the modern era, like extreme partisan gerry...