Opinion · 117th Congress
Note to Joe Biden: Unity is more than just words
[jwp-video n=”1″] Base first So far, his support for unity has been more rhetorical than substantive.
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Policy · 117th Congress
State and local tax deduction cap back in play for coronavirus relief package
“It’s so disappointing and harmful that they would use this crisis to push their agenda and help the top 1 percent.”
White House · 117th Congress
Biden won’t ‘cherry pick’ parts of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid plan
The majority could use the time before then to move a fiscal 2021 budget resolution directly to the floor, which the 1974 budget law allows since the Senate Budget panel didn’t act by April 1, 2020.
Congress · 117th Congress
Impeachment trial could knock Biden virus aid plan off course
The House won’t be in session for votes next week, so the earliest that chamber could go to the floor to vote on a fiscal 2021 budget blueprint would be the week of Feb. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
‘Byrd rule’ shadow could fall on Biden coronavirus relief plan
Under a reconciliation package, there’s a school of thought that says only about $1 trillion of Biden’s proposal could make it through the complicated “Byrd rule” process in the Senate, mainly provisions
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats planning budget blitz to pass Biden agenda
[jwp-video n=”1″] Doing so would still trigger automatic year-end spending cuts if not offset.
Congress · 117th Congress
President Biden arrives with negotiator-in-chief credentials
[jwp-video n=”1″] “His first impulse, and I’ve seen this many times with Joe, will be to try to get bipartisan agreement,” former Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat,
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Democrats seek momentum for voting, political money overhaul
The measure, dubbed HR 1 in the House and now christened in the Senate as S 1 to signify that it is a top priority, died in the GOP-controlled Senate last Congress.
Congress · 117th Congress
‘All hell broke loose’: January so far a roller coaster for D.C. statehood
[jwp-video n=”1″] Details of what happened that day are still emerging.
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats plan a spending blowout, but hurdles remain
Out of a $1.5 trillion House-passed infrastructure package last summer, over $1 trillion probably wouldn’t pass the Byrd test.
Congress · 117th Congress
Past budget fights hold lessons for Democrats
The GOP reconciliation directive to repeal the health care law simply called for authorizing committees to write legislation reducing the deficit by at least $1 billion over 10 years.
Congress · 117th Congress
Rules of the last 50-50 Senate might not bind this one
[jwp-video n=”1″] The hunt for an agreement comes amid the possibility that the Senate could also face an impeachment trial as it attempts to organize itself, with the House preparing to once
Congress · 117th Congress
Trump’s riot gives Republicans reason to help Biden
[jwp-video n=”1″] Even Vice President Mike Pence, a loyalist from the start, defied Trump, saying he could not unilaterally reject the electors.
Policy · 117th Congress
Democrats aim to move health care agenda despite slim majorities
[jwp-video n=”1″] [Democrats begin laying groundwork for big budget plans] Democratic leaders will have to navigate differences between factions of their own party and the narrowest of
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Democrats move closer to Senate control as Warnock defeats Loeffler
[jwp-video n=”1″] The other Senate runoff on the ballot, for a six-year term, remained uncalled.
Policy · 116th Congress
Biden climate team’s foes: Time, politics and bureaucracy
Congress did not reach an agreement to reauthorize the highway bill in time for the Oct. 1 deadline, opting to extend the current law through most of 2021.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Four decades and counting — the GOP’s shift to the right is bigger than the Democrats’ shift left
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Congress · 116th Congress
Lamar! bids farewell, says Senate not voting on big issues is a ‘waste of talent’
[jwp-video n=”1″] “We first met in 1969, when I was working for a freshman senator named Marlow Cook and he worked down in the executive branch.
Congress · 116th Congress
Crapo poised for starring role in economic, health care policy
[jwp-video n=”1″] Debt and taxes Long after Simpson-Bowles and the “gang of six,” Crapo still has a national debt clock streaming at the top of his website, even as that issue has faded in recent
Congress · 116th Congress
Joe Manchin kills dreams of expanding Supreme Court, eliminating the filibuster
[jwp-video n=”1″] Manchin said moderates should be able to trust that he can keep his word and not give in to pressure from Schumer, citing his vote in favor of Supreme Court Justice Brett M