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Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator, Illinois: I don’t generally write letters to Senators for the same reason I quit writing letters to Santa about 50 years ago: I never get what I ask for.
The Senate Library in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg is currently home to the exhibit "Making a Masterpiece."
Democrats want to abolish or reform the filibuster to pass voting rights bills. But Republicans, Joe Manchin, and Kyrsten Sinema disagree.
Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough works beside then-Vice President Mike Pence earlier this year during the certification of 2020 Electoral College ballots, in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) The Senate parliamentarian, a critical but often low-profile arbiter of the chamber's procedural actions, is the subject of frustration from some liberals after a crucial blow to Democrats' agenda late Thursday. Elizabeth MacDonough is the unelected, nonpartisan interpreter of chamber rules, commonly referred to as the Senate referee. She nixed a Democratic push t...