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Democrats move closer to sweeping tax, climate change and health care bill: Senate Democrats are one step closer to passing a sweeping tax, climate change ...
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Democrats move closer to sweeping tax, climate change and health care bill
Quick Glance: The Kyrsten Sinema Viewing Party
  • "Sinema could do anything right now," said a senior staffer on Tuesday.

  • Sinema and Manchin were seen on the Senate floor together at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon.

  • "Thanks, Ted," Sinema replied.

  • Sinema grinned and clapped.
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Democrats reach agreement on economic package, setting the stage for a Senate vote
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Democrats reach agreement on economic package, setting the stage for a ...
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Sinema Reaches Deal with Democrats on Reconciliation: After a week of silence, Sinema announced her support for a revised version of the major spending package.
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Sinema Reaches Deal with Democrats on Reconciliation
Quick Glance: The Hill's Morning Report -- Democrats on the verge of passing a budget bill
  • Democrats plan to replace it with a new excise tax on stock buybacks, which is estimated to generate more revenue than the item Sinema dropped (The Associated Press).

  • Brittney Griner, 31, was convicted of narcotics possession with criminal intent in a Russian court on Thursday.

  • "What is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous," he declared (The New York Times).

  • The Associated Press investigates how states are responding.
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Senate sets up first vote Saturday on Schumer-Manchin deal: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that the Senate will begin consideration of ...
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Senate sets up first vote Saturday on Schumer-Manchin deal
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Democratic anxiety grows over Sinema’s silence: Senate Democrats are growing more anxious over maverick Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-Ariz.) five-day silence on a ...
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Democratic anxiety grows over Sinema’s silence
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Manchin-Schumer deal stuns business lobby: The climate and tax package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va ...
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Manchin-Schumer deal stuns business lobby
Quick Glance: House Democrats unite around Manchin deal
  • The proposed measure, which includes $369 billion for new climate-friendly energy initiatives and more than $450 billion in new tax revenue, is only a portion of the $2.2 trillion package passed by House Democrats last November.

  • J.), another Democrat from a high-tax state, has stated that he is willing to "fight like hell" to get a SALT provision in the bill.

  • The bill's warm welcome from House Democrats throughout the caucus implies it will pass easily through the lower house, despite the Democrats' narrow majority and the probability that no Republicans will support it.

  • "I feel hopeful," she remarked.
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Krysten Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal: The Arizona Democrat had been her party’s last remaining holdout on the package, now slated to move forward on ...
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Krysten Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal
Quick Glance: Senator Sinema, a key member of the United States Senate, has agreed to a $430 billion drug and energy plan.
  • WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Thursday that she agreed to "move forward" on a $430 billion drug price, energy, and tax measure that Democrats intend to pass over Republican objections.

  • Democrats intend to approve the package without Republican backing through a parliamentary process called as reconciliation, with the Senate's 100 seats split 50-50.

  • Sinema stated that she and other Democrats had achieved an agreement to eliminate a clause that would levy new taxes on carried interest.

  • In a statement, Schumer stated that he now felt he had the votes to pass the package.
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How the Democrats Finally Got It Done: The journey to pass a signature climate, health and tax bill ended with 16 hours of voting, which lasted through the night ...
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How the Democrats Finally Got It Done
Quick Glance: After a marathon debate, the Senate passes a climate and tax bill.
  • The Senate adopts climate, health, and tax legislation, over Republican opposition.

  • Democrats were nearing the end of their climate, health-care, and tax bill when it became evident that there was a problem: Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, an enigmatic moderate, was willing to support a Republican tweak to a major tax measure.

  • "There is a clear momentum change," said Senator Gary Peters, a Democrat from Michigan and the chairman of the Democratic Party's Senate campaign arm.

  • Senator Chuck Schumer of New York triumphantly prepares for final passage on the Senate floor.
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Democrats have reached a deal on their climate, health care and tax package – a major part of the party’s agenda as the midterms approach ... Show more
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Editorial: Democrats finally get something done for Biden. In the end, Manchin was more helpful than Sinema.
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Editorial: Democrats finally get something done for Biden. In the end ...
Quick Glance: The Democrats Have Finally Delivered
  • The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is expected to be passed by the House of Representatives later this week; Senate Democrats approved the legislation over the weekend, and it includes elements of the President's Build Back Better policy program.

  • Despite Washington's polarization, three of the four legislation received Republican support.

  • After months of wrangling, Senate Democrats banded together and used the reconciliation procedure to approve the Inflation Reduction Act on a party-line vote of 51 to 50.

  • Although meeting that percentage would fall short of the White House's initial aim of a 50% reduction in carbon emissions, it would be a historic step in the right direction.
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With Manchin on board, spotlight turns to Sinema — and COVID: The party-bucking Democrat left the Capitol on Thursday without disclosing whether she’d support ...
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With Manchin on board, spotlight turns to Sinema — and COVID
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GOP, Democrats feuding over taxes with eye on Kyrsten Sinema: Republicans are pummeling Dems for seeking corporate tax hikes they argue will get passed onto ...
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GOP, Democrats feuding over taxes with eye on Kyrsten Sinema
Quick Glance: Harris Faulkner, a Fox News anchor, loses it when Joe Manchin questions her patriotism.
  • "My father served," an enraged Faulkner retorted to Manchin, insisting that the West Virginia lawmaker not make it "personal."

  • "Well, sounds like you are," Manchin remarked quietly.

  • Following that heated exchange, Faulkner pressed Manchin on the poor approval numbers Biden is "rocking right now," remarking that the West Virginia senator doesn't sound particularly supportive of his own party.

  • People who dislike the president and Democrats may be disappointed.
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Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?: What’s in, and out, of the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” as it stands now.
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Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?
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Sinema eyes changes to tax, climate portions of reconciliation bill: Sinema is the one person potentially standing in the way of Democrats' $740 billion ...
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Sinema eyes changes to tax, climate portions of reconciliation bill
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Joe Manchin Has Wrecked the Biden Presidency—Perhaps He’ll Also Liberate It: Bill McKibben writes about how the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin killed ...
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Joe Manchin Has Wrecked the Biden Presidency—Perhaps He’ll Also Liberate ...
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Climate Change-Fueled “Megadrought” in Western U.S. Worst in 12 Centuries: In more climate news, a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change ...
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Climate Change-Fueled “Megadrought” in Western U.S. Worst in 12 Centuries
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Democrats Need to Sell the Reconciliation Package: President Biden’s infrastructure “framework” can be seen one of two ways.
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Democrats Need to Sell the Reconciliation Package
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WSJ News Exclusive | Democrats’ Planned Tax-Rate Increases in Jeopardy Due to Sinema’s Opposition
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WSJ News Exclusive | Democrats’ Planned Tax-Rate Increases in Jeopardy Due ...
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Manchin Makes Biden a Good Offer. But Will Sinema Buy It?: After Joe Biden repackaged Build Back Better as a deficit reduction measure, Joe Manchin floated the ...
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Manchin Makes Biden a Good Offer. But Will Sinema Buy It?
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Senate Democrats strip family, medical leave from spending package: Biden's big social-spending bill keeps getting smaller as centrists Joe Manchin and Kyrsten ...
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Senate Democrats strip family, medical leave from spending package
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Why Kyrsten Sinema Is at the Center of Democrats’ Tax-Hike Fight: Arizona senator has emerged as one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington ...
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Why Kyrsten Sinema Is at the Center of Democrats’ Tax-Hike Fight
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Sinema, Manchin pump brakes on a proposed fee for methane emissions: Democrats are trying to negotiate with members who have outright opposed or expressed ...
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Sinema, Manchin pump brakes on a proposed fee for methane emissions
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Kyrsten Sinema Faces a Growing Revolt From Her Former Supporters: The centrist senator is key to President Biden’s agenda in Washington. Her positions have ...
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Kyrsten Sinema Faces a Growing Revolt From Her Former Supporters
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Bernie Sanders accuses Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema of 'sabotage': The Vermont Senator quietly shepherded Biden's bill for months. Now he's pissed about two ...
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Bernie Sanders accuses Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema of 'sabotage'
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Free community college, Biden child tax credit face cuts in spending bill: Democrats are fuming at harsh cuts Manchin and Sinema want in Biden's social-spending ...
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Free community college, Biden child tax credit face cuts in spending bill
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GOP prays Sinema and Manchin pare back Dems' big spending bill: The two moderates may try to slash down their party's ambitions. But as one Republican put ...
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GOP prays Sinema and Manchin pare back Dems' big spending bill
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Progressives fear compromise could jeopardize midterm hopes | TheHill: Progressives are fretting over the pared-back framework of Democrats’ massive social ...
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Deal On Biden’s $2T Plan Edges Closer; Harris Is `Confident’: “I am confident, frankly ― not only optimistic, but I am confident that we will reach a deal ...
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Deal On Biden’s $2T Plan Edges Closer; Harris Is `Confident’
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White House hunkers down with Manchin and Sinema as Democrats insist deal is in reach
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White House hunkers down with Manchin and Sinema as Democrats insist deal ...
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White House, Dems hurriedly reworking $2 trillion Biden plan: The White House and Democrats are hurriedly reworking key aspects of President Joe Biden’s $2 ...
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White House, Dems hurriedly reworking $2 trillion Biden plan
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Get up to speed: How the spending bill would change your life: Before the policy revolution comes the political drama.
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Get up to speed: How the spending bill would change your life
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Manchinism can help the Democrats. Sinema’s politics are a dead end.: Both Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin irritate progressives. But their agendas have little in ...
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Manchinism can help the Democrats. Sinema’s politics are a dead end.
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Billionaire tax criticized as Biden pushes for budget deal: Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, are prepared to roll out ...
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Billionaire tax criticized as Biden pushes for budget deal
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Michael Smerconish : Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s “refusal to simply fall in line and instead exhibit some independence is both a rarity in Washington and a ...

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White House outlines national security risks posed by climate change: The report outlines risks such as "cross-border geopolitical flashpoints" and "climate ...
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White House outlines national security risks posed by climate change
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Bill Gates pledges $1.5 billion for climate change—but only if Biden signs the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill https://trib.al/Dv9Pjq4

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Will Sen. Kyrsten Sinema squander her chance to save democracy?: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema supports the filibuster because it forces compromise. Except there is none ...
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Will Sen. Kyrsten Sinema squander her chance to save democracy?
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Political negotiations spell the demise of Biden’s universal community college plan
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Political negotiations spell the demise of Biden’s universal community ...
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Half its original size, Biden’s big plan in race to finish: The Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for President Joe Biden’s social services ...
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Half its original size, Biden’s big plan in race to finish
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Combating climate change means reigning in our obsession with buying more stuff says Mike Thompson cartoons - USA TODAY, Detroit Free Press https://bit.ly/35QsWTz