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US passes 600,000 deaths from coronavirus – live | US news
The Guardian’s Sam Levine reports: Joe Biden is officially tapping a leading voting rights lawyer for a role on a federal appellate court. Biden is nominating Myrna Pérez, the director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice, to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd circuit, …
Democrats fear Biden’s agenda may be squandered as they pressure key moderates to abandon Senate GOP
At a closed-door lunch on Tuesday, Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, informed her caucus that she would try to get a bipartisan deal with Republicans on an infrastructure package and that she had Biden’s blessing to make that attempt, according to three sources in the room. But after Sinema left the meeting, one Democrat after another …
Republicans, Democrats battle for high ground after McGahn testimony
“The takeaway for me is, yesterday Jen Psaki at the White House said she doesn’t want to relitigate 17-month-old emails from Dr. Fauci, yet today we have House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee religitating the Mueller report,” he told reporters, according to C-SPAN. Meanwhile, committee Democrats called Friday “a great day for Congressional oversight.” Chair …
House Democrats announce infrastructure bill amid Biden negotiations
House Democrats unveiled their own infrastructure bill on Friday that would address parts of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan, as negotiations between the president and Senate Republicans slow down. The proposal announced by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio would cost $547 billion over five years, encompassing the portions of Mr. Biden’s $1.7 …
Texas voting bill: House Democrats break quorum, effectively blocking passage of restrictive bill for now
Their move effectively killed Senate Bill 7 for this year’s legislative session. But it could soon be revived: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Sunday night that he is adding “election integrity” to a list of topics lawmakers will address in a special session he plans to call. “Legislators will be expected to have worked out …
Opinion | Democrats Ignore the Crime Spike at Their Own Peril
The issue of public safety may be about to play its most significant role in our politics since the mid-1990s, the beginning of a decadeslong decline in crime that steadily eroded its political salience. Donald Trump tried to make law and order a defining issue in 2020, but the rioting he so forcefully denounced was, …
Manchin breaking with Democrats on voting rights
Sen. Joe ManchinJoe ManchinIs the Constitution in the way of DC statehood? Biden ‘encouraged’ by meeting with congressional leaders on infrastructure Joe Manchin is wrong — D.C. statehood is constitutional MORE said that he is backing a narrower piece of voting rights legislation that he believes could garner bipartisan support, breaking with Democrats on the …
Breaking: U.S. Rep Cheri Bustos will not seek reelection | Politics and elections
In 2016, Bustos also pressured former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to commit to the extension of passenger rail service from Chicago to Moline at a time when continued federal funding for the project was in question. Subsequently, she and other lawmakers got a commitment from the federal government to extend the $177 million set aside …
Parliamentarian gives Democrats potential new tool for reconciliation in early ruling
The ruling is a key step for Democrats as they weigh their options for moving infrastructure legislation, potentially giving them a route to pass new legislation without Republican votes. It’s important to note, however, that some details are still going to have to be worked out with the parliamentarian, and it was not immediately clear …
Fact check: Breaking down 10 claims about the Democrats’ elections bill
Here is a fact check of some of the claims lawmakers made at the hearing; the Republicans present made a larger number of checkable assertions about what is in the bill, so we checked more claims from them than from the Democrats present. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas claimed: “Under this bill, there’s automatic …
