Top congressional lawmakers are working against the clock to clinch a bipartisan agreement on government spending before a Feb. 18 deadline, with pressure building on both sides to find common ground in the face of a rapidly closing window.
A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would reform an 1887 election law that has been in the spotlight in the wake of the 2020 election.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and members of his leadership team and inner circle are pushing back hard against former President Trump’s latest statements related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the 2020 election.
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Blocking the bill would undoubtedly generate negative headlines for the GOP and put Republicans in the awkward position of opposing a commission to probe an insurrection many of them have already condemned.
A months-long commission, which Republicans fear would stretch past its year-end deadline, would keep Jan. 6 in the spotlight as the midterms draw near. GOP lawmakers are warning that it would risk keeping them off message when much of the party is eager to talk about almost anything besides the deadly attack.
“I want our midterm message to be .jobs and wages and the economy, and national security and safe streets … and not religitating the 2020 election,” said Sen. John Thune