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</p> A Senate Democratic aide, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations, said Democrats’ goal for the security bill is to create a bipartisan Senate alternative to the measure
</p> In a letter Wednesday to Rep.
</p> Treasury estimates that Biden’s capital gains tax increases would raise $322.5 billion over 10 years.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> In addition, she wrote that a revised budget resolution with additional reconciliation instructions can’t be automatically discharged to the floor in the absence of a Senate
</p> Staff training and awareness Rep.
</p> After saying the bill would pass before senators left for the Memorial Day recess, Schumer struck a deal with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Friday to punt consideration of the bill until
and Infrastructure Committee set to mark up its highway bill June 9.
</p> In a letter to the Democratic caucus, Schumer said he’d bring the Democratic effort to reshape elections to the floor in June, the first time he’s set a solid timeline for the bill.
</p> On Friday morning, Schumer said he expected the bill to pass by the end of the day.
</p> CQ Roll Call’s Dean DeChiaro speaks with Rep.
</p> But on Thursday, the South Carolina Republican said he thinks the Jan. 6 bill is not a viable option: “I don’t think it will ever work.
</p> “We’re going to be facing pressures, certainly from many members of our caucus, to shave the defense number,” he said.
</p> The proposal’s prospects appear strong, but timing remains murky. Schumer, D-N.Y., who sponsored the underlying bill with GOP Sen.
“federal procurement commitments” over the next decade to buy domestically made “clean, renewable, and emission-free energy products” for federal, state and local use, according to a summary of the bill
</p> Biden told reporters he spoke briefly with Sen.
</p> But his thinking has shifted since Jan. 6.</p> “Now you’re thinking: There’s a suspicious package.
</p> [Lawmakers happily embrace return of earmarks to highway bill]</p> Second-term Texas Rep. Colin Allred, who defeated longtime GOP Rep.
Carper of Delaware, the EPW chairman, announced they had reached a deal on a five-year, $303.5 billion highway bill to be marked up Wednesday.
Karen Bass of California, the lead House negotiator on the police overhaul bill that bears Floyd’s name.</p> She has been engaged in talks for weeks with Sens.
</p> Democrats were staying positive when asked if they believed the bill could somehow get the votes it needs. </p> “Always hold out hope,” Cardin said in an interview before his speech.