If a man looks me in the eye, gives me his word that something’s going to happen, I take it unless he breaks it. He may have broken his word to somebody else, but to me, has he made that deal we’re nowhere near having made a deal. We agree that we should try to get a bipartisan agreement, Biden said.
ADVERTISEMENT But the Liz Cheney/McCarthy thing is above my pay grade. I mean, I have enough trouble figuring out my own party all the time, let alone the Republicans, he added.
McCarthy was among the four congressional leaders who met with Biden at the White House on Wednesday, hours after the vote to expel Cheney from her House conference chair position. The leaders met to discuss Biden s more than $2 trillion infrastructure proposal.
He added that House Majority Whip James Clyburn s (D-S.C.) recent comments suggesting dropping qualified immunity from the talks if it was standing in the way of a larger deal were encouraging.
Scott has floated suing departments instead of individual officers, an idea that some Democrats have stopped short of endorsing but characterized as moving in the right direction.
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Lawmakers have also been at odds about Section 242, which outlines when police officers can be criminally prosecuted, with many Republicans viewing changes as a bridge too far. And Scott indicated earlier this week that negotiators were still in discussion about a database tracking police misconduct.
Briahna Joy Gray, former national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, told Hill.TV it was “really frustrating” when fellow White House candidate Sen.
A group of 10 moderate House Democrats is signaling concerns with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) signature legislation to lower prescription drug prices, raising further doubts about the legislation’s path forward.
As for the gas lines, it’s not clear when distribution on the East Coast will be back to normal, even if the pipeline is back up and running by the end of the week.
“I think that it’ll at least be annoying or inconvenient to find gasoline . into next week,” Kloza said. “But really, we’re waiting on Colonial.”
He said he thinks things will calm down once the company sends a strong signal that fuel is once again moving.
De Haan put a longer timeline on it, saying he thinks it will take “a few weeks probably at best” for the situation to return to normal.