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This week: Congressional leaders to meet with Biden amid GOP reckoning


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It’s the first time Biden has met with the four top congressional leaders as a group since being inaugurated in January. It will also be his first meeting with McConnell and McCarthy. 
While it appears Biden doesn’t have much of a relationship with McCarthy, who came to power under Trump, he’s spoken with McConnell on the phone and the two have known each other for decades, first as Senate colleagues and then cutting deals during the Obama administration. 
The meeting is expected to largely focus on Biden’s $4 trillion spending plan, which is divided up between a $2.3 trillion jobs proposal and a second $1.8 trillion bill focused on education and child care.  ....

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Progressives put Democrats on defense


“I’m sure that Rs will use it that way,” Kaine said about it being a political distraction. “[But] I kind of know what my folks want me to focus on now, and it’s jobs and infrastructure.”  
Asked about the bill from his Democratic colleagues to expand the Supreme Court, Sen. Chris Coons
“In the middle of working on infrastructure, China competitiveness, climate, if there is some big bipartisan bill to expand the Supreme Court, I’m not aware of it. If there’s some bill in the House, I am unsurprised,” he said.
Asked about the possibility that Republicans could try to use it against Democrats, he added: “This is not a subject on which I’m focused.” ....

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Hillary Clinton: Filibuster should be lifted for voting rights legislation


Clinton told Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for her 2016 presidential campaign, that the filibuster “stands in the way of a lot of legislation, and whether or not it can be either reformed or eliminated is what we will find out in the next few weeks.”
It certainly should be lifted for constitutional matters, and I would put election law matters at the top of that list, Clinton said on an episode of Palmieri’s podcast, “Just Something About Her,” published on Thursday.
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The current filibuster rules require 60 votes in the Senate to move forward with legislation. Calls for nixing the procedural tool have gained steam recently among Democratic lawmakers, and President Biden ....

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