January 26, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has backed off his demands to protect the 60-vote rule, but the issue could come back up later.
With Democrats now holding the Senate majority, talk of eliminating the filibuster has ramped up. So what is a filibuster and why is the issue coming up now? A filibuster is really extended debate, extended amending activity, whatever it takes to block the majority from going to a vote on whatever it is they re pursuing, said Sarah Binder, a senior fellow for governance studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of political science at George Washington University.
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion relief package Thursday that included more stimulus payments and other direct aid, but don't expect to
Print this article Infrastructure Week would have been a week blocked out in Congress to debate and pass a bipartisan bill to fund more roads, bridges, and the like during the Trump administration. The term became a taunt because the effort got pushed back so often by other priorities that it never happened.
President-elect Joe Biden s team announced a delay of its own infrastructure week as well. It is partly due to the demands of President Trump. On Dec. 23, 2020, Trump gave a nationally televised speech denouncing the stimulus bill that was winding its way to his desk, saying it was full of wasteful spending on the one hand and not nearly generous enough on the other.