Opposed to just about any legislation put forward by democrats. The future of President Bidens agenda, other than the covid package, could depend on one thing. The filibuster. Thats the only reason you need 60 votes to pass a bill. Not for the bill itself but to stop the filibuster in a 50 50 senate, democrats effectively need ten gop votes to pass anything. The house just passed the for the people act. A comprehensive Voting Rights bill. On wednesday, senate ma rt jo leader Chuck Schumer said this about the bill. We will put the bill on the floor. We will see if our republican friends join us. If they dont join us, our caucus will come together and decide the appropriate action to take. Everything is on the table. Failure is not an option. You heard that, right . Everything is on the table . Well, more democrats are now saying that eliminating the filibuster should be on that table. Currently the Minority Party only has to threaten a filibuster to halt progress on legislation. This we
what this needs for the future of this massive spending bill, hey alex. senator manchin said he spent five and half months trying to remedy the concerns he had over this bill and ultimately cannot justify the cost of the legislation to the people he represents pretty broke the news exclusively to brett baer on sunday. i have always had this, brett, if i cannot go home and explain ancient people people of west virginia i cannot vote for. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can t. i have tried everything humanly possible i cannot get there and this is a no on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do. hundred manchin added his concerns over the bills cost only grew alongside inflation and the continued pandemic. he has been the long-standing democratic holdout in present binds build back better gender seeks to the safety net and bolster climate action reaction from the left was swift and fierce. i mean we all knew senator manchi
hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma you can see it on the map in the farthest southeast corner of the great state of oklahoma. it borders arkansas to the east and borders texas to the south and in mccurtain county, in that part of oklahoma, the local newspaper there fittingly is called the mccurtain gazette news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper. if you want to read its reporting it s like the good old days, you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep and then you can see what they ve reported on now, like all good local news outlets online or in print or both, the staff at the mccurtain gazette news make it their business to make sure they are diligently covering the local government in their corner of oklahoma, so they re the people who show up to things like, you know, county commissioner meetings where the agenda is buying equipment for the local volunteer fire department or road repairs or stuff like that. at th
ayman, nice to see you. thanks at home for joining us. so if you got in your car and you drove out of oklahoma city, you drove southeast out of oklahoma city about four hours, before you left oklahoma state limits, before you crossed the border, the last place you would hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma you can see it on the map in the farthest southeast corner of the great state of oklahoma. it borders arkansas to the east and borders texas to the south and in mccurtain county, in that part of oklahoma, the local newspaper there fittingly is called the mccurtain gazette-news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper. if you want to read its reporting it s like the good old days, you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep and then you can see what they ve reported on now, like all good local news outlets online or in print or both, the staff at the mccurtain gazette-news make it their business to make sure they are di
newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington and at any moment we re expecting a news briefing from law enforcement officials and dave ville, alabama, the sad sight of last night s horrifying mass shooting. we are hoping to learn more about a suspect or possible motive in that shooting rampage in this tiny alabama town. this is a look at a vigil that s about to get underway. at any moment. these are live pictures that you re looking at right now of this vigil that is about to take place in memory of the children. teenagers many of them who were lost in this mass shooting. here s what we know right now about this tragedy for people are confirmed dead, spokeswoman for one local hospital says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients. the attack apparently happened at a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. one of those killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her 16th birthday. there you see