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Opinion: Look at all the GOP wants to cancel
Another day, another chorus of hysterical cries from the GOP that the Democrats are trying to cancel something. This week we saw GOP elected officials and Fox News in full conniption mode falsely claiming that Democrats wanted to cancel Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head. The reality, though, is that it's the GOP that is the party of cancel culture.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: How Republicans misunderstand the 2020 turnout story
Numerous Republican state legislatures are trying to pass new voter restriction legislation (e.g. limiting absentee and early voting). Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are trying to pass laws that expand access to the ballot box.
[ cnn.com ]Some struggling Americans aren't getting promised stimulus relief. Here's why
• Here's what's in the Senate stimulus plan • Analysis: This is not the kind of governance Biden promised 45 days ago. It's a signal that help is on the way. • How Democrats miscalculated Manchin and later won him back
[ cnn.com ]Voting rights groups say GOP-backed bills in Georgia target Black voters
Voting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in Georgia. The organizations have been credited with helping Democrats win both the White House and control of the US Senate in the last election cycle.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: With Covid relief and stimulus checks in sight, Biden asks for faith in US democracy
Democrats muscled past unified Republican opposition, resolved their own last-minute identity crisis and are on the cusp of delivering a massive Covid relief bill that will put $1,400 checks in the pockets of millions of Americans, shore up unemployment for the millions still out of work and notch the first major legislative accomplishment of Joe Biden's presidency.
[ cnn.com ]Here's how Democrats nearly lost their key swing vote for Biden's Covid relief package and then won him back
It was Friday afternoon, and President Joe Biden was on the phone with Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who felt blindsided by his party leaders and now was at risk of defecting and effectively torpedoing a central pillar of the White House's domestic agenda.
[ cnn.com ]Smerconish: Joe Manchin is the new John McCain
The Covid-19 relief bill only passed after Democrats satisfied the concerns of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). CNN's Michael Smerconish says to see such a raw exercise of independent power is rare and refreshing.
[ cnn.com ]Moderates clashed with progressives on the Senate floor, placing the White House's big-ticket 'American Rescue Plan' in legislative purgatory
The honeymoon is over for President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, whose unified front has been thrown into doubt during the final stages of negotiations on the White House's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill.
[ cnn.com ]Democratic senator's move has many on internet outraged
• Opinion: If Democrats don't keep this promise, they'll have a hard time in 2022
[ cnn.com ]Joe Manchin stalls Democrats' Covid relief push for hours
The Senate is bracing for a series of politically tough amendment votes Friday that could stretch late into the night and into the early hours of Saturday, the last major hurdle senators face before voting on President Joe Biden's sweeping pandemic relief bill, even as lawmakers are still planning to make changes to the legislation.
[ cnn.com ]Republicans aren't interested in bipartisanship and Democrats won't spend much time trying to make that happen. Still, there could be some exceptions.
Here's what we've learned about Washington and US policymaking since President Joe Biden took office, paraphrasing from CNN's political director David Chalian:
[ cnn.com ]Rep. Omar: It's unfortunate an unelected official can stop $15 minimum wage
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke about the obstacles Democrats face trying to push through the $15 minimum wage.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Democrats might regret this bill
The US Senate is expected to pass a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill in the coming days before it heads to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law. This may seem like a major win for the new administration and congressional Democrats, but it's actually a Pyrrhic victory -- one that they may come to regret in the weeks and months ahead.
[ cnn.com ]Here's what a 'vote-a-rama' is (and what it means for stimulus)
Senate Democrats' push to quickly pass President Joe Biden's Covid-19 relief package is about to meet a time-consuming and stamina-challenging speed bump known as a "vote-a-rama."
[ cnn.com ]Senate Democrats still tweaking Covid relief bill as time runs out
Senate Democrats are down to the wire.
[ cnn.com ]House to vote on sweeping government, ethics and election bill
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on HR 1, a sweeping government, ethics and election bill that Democrats have made a signature legislative priority.
[ cnn.com ]Hear Supreme Court justices argue controversial voting law
Supreme Court justices argued an Arizona law that Democrats say, if upheld, would violate the Voting Rights Act and harm Native Americans' ability to vote.
[ cnn.com ]SCOTUS conservatives poised to uphold Arizona's curbs on voting
In a critical voting rights case, conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday suggested they were ready to uphold two provisions of an Arizona voting law that Democrats argue violate the historic Voting Rights Act.
[ cnn.com ]Democrats begin sweeping effort to overhaul election laws
Congress began debate Tuesday on a sweeping ethics and elections package pushed by Democrats that seeks to dramatically overhaul the nation's rules for voting and funding political campaigns.
[ cnn.com ]White House and Democrats defend House passing Covid-19 relief package without GOP support
The White House and congressional Democrats on Sunday defended the House's passage of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package without any Republican support, arguing the Senate must now move quickly on the proposal to address the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.
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