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UPDATE, 7:26 PM PT: Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation stalled again in the Senate, as they fell short in securing a filibuster rules change that would have allowed them to clear the bills with a simple majority. The failure of the legislation was expected, after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Jo…

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin may have put the final nail in the coffin on President Joe Biden’s social spending plan. The Washington Post reports  Manchin has taken his $1.8 trillion compromise proposal off the table. The WaPo cited three unnamed sources in its report. Manchin previously said he was no…

UPDATED, with White House comment: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has given Joe Biden’s administration a lump of coal for the holidays, saying in an interview that he will be a “no” vote on the Build Back Better Act, the cornerstone of the White House’s social and climate agenda. Manchin’s vote is critical to the chances of…

UPDATE, 6:33 AM PT, October 29: Thursday came and went without a vote on a centerpiece of Joe Biden’s agenda, a massive infrastructure package. House progressives nixed the idea, all while endorsing the Build Back Better plan. Now it looks like there could be a vote on both massive bills in the next week or…

The Senate failed to advance a major new voting bill on Wednesday, legislation that advocates have sought as a way to protect the right to vote amid new restrictions being put in place in GOP-led states. The vote was 49-51 to move forward with debate over the bill. All Republicans voted against it. Sixty votes were…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that this week's high-stakes, unresolved and unpredictable drama on Capitol Hill was "like an episode of a TV show." A reporter quickly asked, “What TV show?” “Maybe The West Wing, if something good happens. Maybe Veep if not," she said. She was talking specifically…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) seemingly dashed any hopes of Democrats abolishing the filibuster anytime soon when he wrote last week that the legislative maneuver was a "critical tool" to protecting "our democratic form of government." That's a far different view than that of former President Barack Obama, who called it a…

UPDATE, 9:38 AM PT: The Senate passed a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill after an all-night marathon session. The legislation now heads to the House before it can go to President Joe Biden. The massive spending package would be his first major legislative achievement. The billed passed along party lines, in a vote…