House Democrats passed their sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid Relief bill in a party-line vote early Saturday morning, advancing President Biden’s top legislative priority. The Hill reports, House Democrats pass sweeping $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill with minimum wage hike: Lawmakers passed the bill 219-212, with two Democrats — Reps. Jared Golden (Maine) and Kurt Schrader (Ore.) … Read more
Roll Call reports, “With House Democrats poised to pass their 791-page campaign finance, elections and ethics overhaul as soon as next week, outside groups that support the measure are turning to the Senate.” House set to move on elections overhaul as outside advocates focus on Senate: Left-leaning organizations such as Indivisible, Public Citizen, Democracy 21 … Read more
Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot” in the United States Senate, Senator Ron Johnson, who regularly spews Russian propaganda and here, and spreads internet conspiracies, used the first hearing into the January 6 seditious insurrection by Trump’s MAGA mob to spew more conspiracy theories in his ongoing effort to disappear the January 6 insurrection down the memory … Read more
Why are President Biden’s white male nominees for cabinet positions sailing through the Senate with little serious Republican opposition, while his “diverse” and female nominees are receiving vitriolic opposition from Senate Republicans? No fair, you peeked ahead at the answer. The racism and sexism of the White Nationalist Trump Party is readily apparent. And that … Read more
Paul Blumenthal writes at the Huffington Post, Democrats’ Top Priority Is To Reform Elections. Will It Be The Bill To Break The Filibuster? Congressional Democrats are pushing a sweeping package of voting rights, gerrymandering, election, campaign finance and ethics reforms, called the For the People Act. It’s listed as H.R. 1 in the House and … Read more