The bill passed the House last week with 35 GOP votes. But it’s essentially unraveled in the Senate, with most of the GOP caucus following the lead of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Manchin and Sinema, the two most moderate members of the Senate Democratic caucus who are also the biggest Democratic opponents of nixing the filibuster, released a joint statement on Tuesday making it clear that they were open to changes from Republicans to the House-passed bill. A bipartisan commission to investigate the events of that day has passed the House of Representatives with a bipartisan vote and is a critical step to ensuring our nation never has to endure an attack at the hands of our countrymen again. We implore our Senate Republican colleagues to work with us to find a path forward on a commission to examine the events of January 6th, they said.
The White House is making plans for President Biden
The White House and Buckingham Palace are planning for Biden and the queen to meet in the U.K. before he heads to a NATO meeting on June 14, the official said. This would be Biden’s first trip outside the U.S. since the start of his term, during which the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic halted international trips.
The planned meeting comes after the queen’s husband, Prince Philip, died in April at the age of 99. Biden and first lady Jill Biden
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This would also mark the 13th time the queen has met with a U.S. president during her 69-year reign.
This morning Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican congresswoman from Georgia, once again compared preparations taken against COVID to the Holocaust. These are sickening, reprehensible comments, and she should stop this vile language immediately, Schumer, who is the first Jewish Senate majority leader, said from the floor.
McConnell told CNN that her comments are “outrageous” and “reprehensible.”
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Greene, a frequent source of controversy for her party, sparked widespread backlash late last week when she compared Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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Greene first criticized Pelosi for continuing to require everyone to wear masks on the House floor rules punishable by fines and for saying she didn t trust Republicans to be honest about their vaccination status.
“You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene said late last week on the right-wing network Real America s Voice. “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
“Filibustering a bipartisan commission regarding the January 6 insurrection is a three dimensional way to make the point that the filibuster is primarily a destructive force in American politics,” he said.
The Jan. 6 bill is the one of several items on the Senate’s agenda over a crucial summer period that could spark deep tensions over the 60-vote legislative filibuster and build pressure for Democrats to unify behind nixing it.
The filibuster has largely laid dormant for the first four months of Biden’s administration with Democrats using reconciliation to squeak through a $1.9 trillion infrastructure package and the Senate focused on nominations, which can pass without GOP support, and smaller, bipartisan bills.