WASHINGTON – Joe Manchin didn’t budge. West Virginia’s Democratic U.S. Senator, along with Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, refused to allow the Senate to filibuster rules on key voting right legislation Wednesday night.
WASHINGTON – After essentially being forced to play his hand, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) says he supports abolishing the filibuster to require a simple majority to try to pass voting rights legislation.
Eliminating the filibuster would plunge the Senate, and thus governance, deeper into the mire of tribal politics. All desire for bipartisanship would be lost. The only motivation for each party would be to secure enough seats in the next election to have a majority.
CHARLESTON – The U.S. consumer price inflation index rose 7 percent in December, the biggest climb in 40 years. The numbers only bolster Sen. Joe Manchin's concerns about the Build Back Better legislation.
CHARLESTON – While he still doesn’t think any federal voting rights legislation will pass, but West Virginia Secretary of State said he’s glad U.S. Senator Joe Manchin is holding steady on his opposition to filibuster reform.
WASHINGTON – With a key U.S. Senate vote less than a week away, Sen. Joe Manchin is ramping up his public support of maintaining the Senate’s filibuster rules.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Joe Manchin refusal to change the Senate filibuster rules and his concerns about the Build Back Better plan “is being very protective of the West Virginia perspective,” according to a conservative former attorney general of Virginia.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito chastised Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to vote to use the so-called “nuclear option” to change the Senate’s filibuster rules. Meanwhile, West Virginia's other senator remains in the spotlight as he still seems to be opposed to such a change as well.
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CHARLESTON – Lawmakers, politicians, community leaders and interested groups – locally and nationally – are throwing their two cents in regarding Sen. Joe Manchin’s decision not to support the Biden administration’s Build Back Better Act.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Joe Manchin says he can’t support the Biden administration’s “massive” Build Back Better legislation, drawing ire from President Biden and other Democrats.
WASHINGTON –Joe Manchin’s hesitation to support President Biden’s Build Back Better Act continues to draw attention to West Virginia’s Democratic senator.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has a better understanding of inflation than the average layman and is speaking out about the dangerous inflationary potential of the Build Back Better Act.
The budget reconciliation bill being considered in the Senate is overflowing with harmful government policies. Reckless spending that quickens inflation is only the tip of the spear. Other components that tinker with the free market will have lasting consequences that are more challenging to undo.
WASHINGTON – Two new government reports on rising inflation and the cost of the Biden administration’s legislative agenda has political observers looking squarely at U.S. Senator Joe Manchin.