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Senate majority leader said he will file cloture on infrastructure legislation Monday and hold initial vote on motion to proceed Wednesday.
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Senate majority leader said he will file cloture on infrastructure legislation Monday and hold initial vote on motion to proceed Wednesday.
U-S-A: In honor of the upcoming Olympic Games, elections analyst Nathan L.
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groups have lined up TV ads, grassroots campaigns and demonstrations around the country heading into the July Fourth recess to push for passage of the bill, dubbed the For the People Act and known as S
S 1 watch: The National Democratic Redistricting Committee this week launched a digital ad buy and web video as well as billboards in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania to push for Senate passage
Schumer has said the chamber would vote on the elections, campaign finance and the ethics overhaul, known as S 1, this month. It is not expected to get enough votes to clear a procedural hurdle.
Supporters say they want to enact the overhaul, given the bill numbers of S 1 and HR 1, before the 2022 midterm elections to undo new GOP-backed state laws that roll back some pandemic-era election practices
But Pelosi and other Democrats say it is not a suitable swap for the sweeping, 800-plus-page package, known as the For the People Act and dubbed HR 1 in the House and S 1 in the Senate.
“In the last week of the June work period, the Senate will vote on S. 1, the For the People Act, legislation that is essential to defending our democracy, reducing the influence of dark money and
Elaine Luria set an event for June 15 at Agua 301, a restaurant in D.C.’s Yards Park, and Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes is planning a July 9 event at the Delamar hotel in Greenwich, among others.
Action Fund dropped a $1 million digital ad buy this week in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire and West Virginia to urge senators to pass a big-scale voting and campaign finance overhaul known as S
Biden reiterated support for U.N.’s Law of the Sea pact that awaits Senate ratification and outlined international roles for the Coast Guard.
“I believe that gerrymandering from both sides is dangerous to our ability to govern this country,” he said at a Tuesday markup of an election overhaul bill dubbed S 1.
Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress was marked by social distancing, and a lack of coordinated fashion, compared with 2017’s State of the Union, when many female lawmakers wore suffragette
Senate Democrats plan to take up next month their major voting and campaign finance package, known as S 1 in the chamber.
Fifty years and counting: The Atlantic takes a look at political-money reformer Fred Wertheimer, who’s spent five decades on the policy matter and is a “principal author” of Democrats’ HR 1/S 1 bill
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats moved forward with their first hearing on a massive overhaul of election and campaign finance laws, known as S 1 (or HR 1 in the House).
The Senate confirmed Xavier Becerra as President Joe Biden's health secretary. He will be the first Latino to hold the post.
Christened as HR 1 and S 1, both have top symbolic priority in their respective chambers. And vulnerable Democrats, such as Georgia Sen.
Two Senate panels advanced President Joe Biden’s pick for deputy budget director, but not without some unexpected partisan fireworks.