President Joe Biden will meet with Senate Democrats today at 1 P.M. as Democrat’s high-stakes push to change the filibuster and pass voting legislation is on the brink of defeat. The President’s trip to Capitol Hill marks the first time he has met face-to-face with the Senate Democratic Caucus since July and comes two days… Read More
After traveling to Georgia yesterday, President Joe Biden will meet with Senate Democrats on Thursday amid a push for his party to change the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation. President Biden will attend a closed-door Democratic caucus lunch to discuss the push to pass voting rights and potential changes to Senate rules as the… Read More
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is expected to lay out a plan as soon as this evening on what Democrats are planning to do with voting rights legislation and the anticipated filibuster fight, as President Joe Biden spends the day in Georgia today. President Biden will endorse changing Senate rules to pass new… Read More
The House and Senate will be in session on the same day for the first time in 2022 when the House reconvenes at 6:30 P.M. today, after the Senate was in session for a brief part of last week. The Senate will spend the majority of this week working on voting rights legislation in advance… Read More
The Senate will end the year without action on President Joe Biden’s cornerstone economic policy priority or the voting rights overhaul that Senate Democrats were eyeing for an end-of-year push. The recognition of this reality comes after President Joe Biden’s talks with holdout Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) faltered this week and the Senate Parliamentarian… Read More
Both the House and Senate voted to raise the debt limit helping avert a first-time default by the U.S. as the clock ticked down on the government’s ability to pay its bills. This comes after months of fighting between Democrats and Republicans over raising the debt limit and spending in Washington. The resolution introduced in… Read More
Democrats will vote today to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion, which they expect will lift the nation’s borrowing cap until 2023. Senate Democrats unveiled a resolution to raise the debt ceiling earlier today, shortly before they were scheduled to take a procedural vote on the measure, which passed on a party line vote,… Read More
The Senate is facing a make or break week on the Build Back Better legislation. The Senate will also work on completing two other items: raising the debt ceiling and passing the sweeping defense policy bill which will position Democrats by the end of the week to have a clear floor schedule to try to… Read More
Both the House and Senate are not in session today. The House will return on Tuesday, December 14th for votes, and the Senate will return at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, December 13th. The Senate on Thursday adopted a bipartisan deal that paves the way for lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling, a move that positions… Read More
Fourteen Senate Republicans on Thursday helped advance a deal negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to set up a one-time exemption to the filibuster on raising the debt ceiling. Senators voted 64-36 to close debate on the bill, which also prevents automatic cuts faced by physicians and other medical providers under Medicare from… Read More
