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Joe Manchin suddenly seems to influence everything Washington does. The West Virginia senator says he wants to make Congress ‘work again’ Ledyard King, USA TODAY © BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP via Getty Images U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin speaks on the phone before a meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill in January 2018. FARMINGTON, W.Va. – For more than nine hours, Joe Manchin wouldn t budge and the fate of President Joe Biden s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill hung in the balance. The Democratic senator from West Virginia opposed the bill s inclusion of a $400-per-week federal unemployment bonus, concerned raising it from $300 might entice some to live off government payments rather than seek work. So as the hours ticked by on Friday March 5, his Democratic and Republican colleagues took turns huddling with him. By nightfall, Manchin signed off on a deal extending the $300 benefit five more months that also included tax relief. The bill passed the nex

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