House Passes The Dream and Promise Act

The House continues its breakneck pace of passing substantive legislation while the dysfunctional Senate is still bogged down with confirmation hearings for President Biden’s cabinet and department nominees. It will take reforming or killing the Senate filibuster to clear the backlog of legislation the House has sent over to the Senate. The Hill reports, House … Read more

House Approves Resolution Removing The Deadline For Ratifying The Equal Rights Amendment; Reauthorizes The Violence Against Women Act

The Hill reports, House removes deadline for ratifying ERA: The House on Wednesday adopted H.J.Res 17, a resolution to remove the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to formally ban discrimination on the basis of sex as one of Democrats’ top legislative priorities. Lawmakers passed the resolution largely along party lines, 222-204, to … Read more

The Democratic COVID-19 Relief Bill Passes The House Without Republican Support

The Hill reports, House approves $1.9T COVID relief in partisan vote: The House on Wednesday approved President Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package in a starkly partisan 220-211 vote, sending the legislation to the White House and clinching Democrats’ first big legislative victory in the Biden era. No Republican lawmakers backed the legislation [so … Read more