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Joe Manchin suddenly seems to influence everything Washington does. The West Virginia senator wants to make Congress 'work again'

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

Joe Manchin suddenly seems to influence everything Washington does. The West Virginia senator says he wants to make Congress 'work again'

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has been given many labels: an obstacle to progress, defender of the status quo. So who is he?: "Not those people," he says.

Joe Manchin suddenly seems to influence everything Washington does. The West Virginia senator says he wants to make Congress 'work again'

Joe Manchin suddenly seems to influence everything Washington does. The West Virginia senator says he wants to make Congress 'work again'

Peter Matthew Bauer Harnesses Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Sufi Mysticism on "Mountains On Mountains" (KEXP Premiere)

Peter Matthew Bauer Harnesses Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Sufi Mysticism on Mountains On Mountains (KEXP Premiere) photo by Cameron McCool Over the arc of The Walkmen’s 14 year career, we saw the New York band grow from bombastically confident, somewhat bratty, rock stars with their 2002 debut Everyone Who Preteneded to Like Me Is Gone to sentimentally graceful parents on their last studio album, 2012’s Heaven. Since their hiatus in 2014, bassist and organist Peter Matthew Bauer has continued his passage of growth by embarking on a journey of his own, one steeped in mysticism and unearthing the influence of his upbringing in a yoga cult.