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Of 70%. the director of one west virginia activist group telling the paper today manchin should rest assured west virginia voters will have his back if he votes for president biden's budget. like his constituents, west virginia voters who kayaked up to his house boat today to plead with him to support the bill, and he did, again, to his credit, have a long back-and-forth with them tonight. so that is one reason the vast majority of democrats in washington are intent on passing the president's agenda and getting it done intact and quickly. it is just superpopular with voters. it is popular in w...

Events even since i've just been talking. tonight senator bernie sanders came out of a meeting in chuck schumer's office, told reporters he is urging the house to vote no on the roads and bridges bill tonight, vote no on the infrastructure bill tonight if there is a vote. he said he was unhappy about these late night closed door talks. that seems significant given what a driving force the progressives have been in the house and what a progressive icon senator sanders is not only in the country but to progressive democrats on capitol hill. is that significant? what do we think is going to happe...

Told that story again. alongside congresswoman lee was congresswoman jayapal and congresswoman bush. they shared their personal stories about choosing to have an abortion. last week the full house passed a bill called the women's health protection act. it would codify the protections established under roe vs. wade guaranteeing the right for american women to have an abortion. the fate of the bill remains an open question in the senate as long as the filibuster exists. there is no reason to be optimistic about the chance of reaching president biden's desk. meanwhile texas's abortion ban is in e...

Trying to figure out what these senators are trying to get other than just attention. today the united states government came within a few hours of having to shut down. this of the last possible day for congress to pass a bill to keep the government open, keep the lights on, keep government workers on their jobs because of republican resistance doing that, because republicans have been refusing to vote to keep the government running. congress really was pushed right up to the edge of the cliff today. it was only at the very last minute they did pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown and ...

It seems to me like the progressives are correct in their assessment if the small roads and bridges bill passes, the bipartisan infrastructure bill passes, the chances that biden's larger agenda, the big $3.5 trillion bill will ever pass diminish significantly. their best chance of getting it done is for the more conservative bill and the larger, more progressive bill, to move together. if i was a house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what? let's let enough house republicans vote for this. let's let enough republicans vote for this. lots of republicans like that legis...