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Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) doubled down on his commitment to keeping the Senate’s legislative filibuster intact, as the January 6 commission heads to the Senate. Democrats are hoping to bring the House-passed legislation to create a commission on January 6 to the floor next week, but the bill faces an uphill battle to garner GOP support.
Manchin said that even if Republicans block the bill, he will not support blowing up the filibuster.
Just asked Sen. Joe Manchin if he would invoke the nuclear option to blow up the filibuster if Republicans block the Jan. 6 commission bill.
Rep. Richard Neal sees permanent child tax credit, universal family leave, child care funding as keys to restoring a robust economy
Updated 4:26 PM;
SPRINGFIELD A proposal unveiled Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal for universal paid family and medical leave, guaranteed access to child care and for the child-tax credit to be made permanent offers a path back from the lingering economic troubles of the pandemic, the congressman said in an interview.
“I think that the pandemic alerted us to the new realities of workforce participation,” Neal, D-Springfield, said amid a national rollout of his proposal, called the Economy for Families Act. “At the same time we still have lost 8 million jobs that have not returned. Four million people who were looking for work and are not looking for work.”
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Three-Quarters of Republicans Oppose Raising Minimum Wage: Poll
On 3/16/21 at 1:01 PM EDT
New polling shows that the vast majority of Republican voters oppose raising the federal minimum wage, although strong majorities of Democrats and independents support the idea.
President Joe Biden and progressive Democrats have pushed for raising the wage to $15 per hour. It is currently set at just $7.25 per hour and was last increased back in July 2009.
Progressive Democrats had hoped to push the wage hike through in Biden s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, but the Senate s parliamentarian ruled that it could not go through the complicated budget reconciliation process. Democrats had turned to reconciliation, which requires only a slim majority to pass in the Senate, after it became clear that Republicans would not support the coronavirus relief bill.