Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Tuesday said he is calling for a longer extension of enhanced ObamaCare financial assistance, and floated increased IRS tax enforcement as a potential way to pay for it.
Wyden told reporters that he is pushing for "the longest possible premium relief for people."
The party-line health care measure that Democrats are preparing was recently expected to have just a two-year extension of the enhanced subsidies...
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Senate Democrats running out of time to move agenda
Senate Democrats are running out of days before the midterm election to pass their legislative priorities and confirm President Biden’s judicial nominees, putting pressure on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to make tough calls about the schedule in the weeks ahead.
The resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the Senate Democratic Conference is making the situation more precarious, as Schumer’s plan to pass prescription drug reform before the August reces...
Manchin tests positive for COVID-19
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Democrats rev up high-stakes final push to lower drug prices
Senate Democrats are making a high-stakes final push to get legislation to lower prescription drug prices over the goal line.
While much of President Biden’s original economic package, from climate measures to higher taxes on the rich, has been stripped out by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), the party is trying to salvage a major measure to lower the cost of prescription drugs that Manchin said he would back.
The bill, which could get a Senate vote in the next...
Democrats scramble to squeeze priorities into budget bill
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Dems second-guessing their strategic decisions
Exasperated Senate Democrats are questioning the strategy of President Biden and Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) after many months of negotiation with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) failed to achieve two of their biggest priorities.
In the midst of an intense heat wave in the American Midwest and Europe, Democratic senators are openly questioning if their leadership should have given more urgency to climate legislation by bringing a bill to the floor within the fir...
Heinrich: ‘Not fair’ for Manchin ‘to string people along for a year’
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) on Tuesday told reporters that it was “not fair” for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) “to string people along for a year” by leading his Democratic colleagues to believe that he would support climate legislation only to pull his backing from a bill last week.
Heinrich said Manchin did not fulfill his responsibility to fellow Democratic senators, leaving many of them exasperated and frustrated.
“All of us recognize that ...
Democrats have no appetite to punish Joe Manchin
Angry Senate Democrats have to decide what to do about Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) after he blew up President Biden’s tax reform and climate agenda last week, prompting calls for the maverick senator to lose his committee chairmanship and get kicked out of the party.
Democratic senators are under pressure to punish Manchin after he torpedoed two of Biden’s biggest campaign promises: to reform the tax code and pass sweeping legislation to combat global climate change. &...
This week: Jan. 6 panel returns to primetime, House takes up contraceptives bill
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol is taking its case back to primetime this week, holding what could be its final hearing of the summer, focusing on then-President Trump’s inaction during the riot.
The hearing, scheduled for Thursday at 8 p.m., is the panel’s eighth presentation since it began laying out its argument to the public last month that Trump was at the center of a conspiracy to keep himself in power. It is the second time ...
Democratic senator questions why Manchin is chairman of Natural Resources panel
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) said Friday he is questioning why Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee after Manchin refused to back climate provisions in a Democratic budget reconciliation package.
“We have an opportunity to address the climate crisis right now. Senator Manchin’s refusal to act is infuriating,” Heinrich wrote on Twitter.
“It makes me question why he’s Chair of ENR,” he added.
Manchin’s...