“We have a lot of things we want to get done. Obviously, the Build Back Better bill is important. Obviously, doing something about China is important. Obviously, many of the bills the House has sent over are important,” Schumer said late last week. “Our first priority is to fill up the president s Cabinet. We re making good progress this week and next week. And then we will decide on the next few things to go forward on.
Democrats will only be able to use two reconciliation bills this year, which can avoid the 60-vote filibuster in the Senate. They’ve already used one for the coronavirus bill, and House Democrats are at odds over what the scope of the second should be.
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Merkley, 64, is at the center of the caucus’s increasingly public debate over whether to reform the 60-vote legislative filibuster, a decision that will have deep ramifications for how many of President Biden
Merkley has been intensely but quietly lobbying his colleagues about the potential for changes to the filibuster, as well as taking part in a bipartisan group discussing smaller rules changes, efforts he ties to a decision made last year when he ran for a third term.
“I was wrestling with whether to run for reelection. I’ve got a limited number of years of life. I could do many different things. . I thought well if I run for reelection it’s going to be because I make an all-out push to restore the Senate as a functioning body,” Merkley told The Hill, noting that he’s spoken to every member of the Democratic caucus over the past year.
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“Well, he s going to speak for himself. You know this, George. You spent time on the Hill. Every member speaks for themselves, and I m telling you what I believe,” Barrasso told George Stephanopoulos
Johnson said in an interview Thursday that he did not feel unsafe during the storming of the Capitol on Jan. by supporters of former President Trump
“I knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, and so I wasn t concerned,” Johnson said on The Joe Pags Show. He added, “Had the tables been turned and [former] President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned.”
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci
“If, by the time we get to the Fourth of July, with the rollout of the vaccines, we get the level of infection so low, I m not going to be able to tell you exactly what the specific guidelines of the CDC are, but I can tell you, for sure, they will be much more liberal than they are right now about what you can do,” Fauci told Jake Tapper
Fauci s assessment comes nearly one week after the Centers for Disease Control released the first set of public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people.