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March 23, 2021

As Biden calls for gun ban, Manchin says he doesn't support background check legislation

President Biden's calls for the Senate to pass aggressive background check bills and a ban on assault weapons face an uphill battle with a key Democrat already voicing disapproval.

March 23, 2021

McConnell says Dems trying to use power to help 'win elections in perpetuity' with HR1, DC statehood

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a podcast released Tuesday said Democrats are trying to use the levers of power to give them a long-term political advantage despite the fact they hold the slimmest of majorities in both the House and Senate.  

March 18, 2021

Elizabeth Warren claims the filibuster is racist amid calls to eliminate it

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in an interview with Axios, published Thursday, that the legislative filibuster requiring 60 votes in the Senate to end debate on the bill, is racist. 

March 18, 2021

McConnell, McCarthy accuse Pelosi of trying to 'steal,' 'overturn' GOP election victory in Iowa

The top two Republicans in Congress are blasting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic majority for considering a challenge to GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ razor thin victory in last November’s election.

March 17, 2021

McConnell on 'Faulkner Focus': Dems do not have mandate to 'completely transform' the country

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Wednesday that Democrats were not given a "mandate" by the American people to eliminate the filibuster in order to completely "transform" this country.

March 17, 2021

Kamala Harris supports change to filibuster in Senate to limit minority party power

Vice President Kamala Harris supports changing the filibuster practice in the Senate in order to limit the ability of the minority party to easily block legislation, her office confirmed to Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ Wednesday. 

March 17, 2021

Biden supports changing filibuster rules in Senate

President Biden said in an interview Tuesday that he is in favor of overhauling the filibuster rules that could help Democrats use their majority in the Senate to steamroll some legislative initiatives without so much as looking at their Republican colleagues.

March 16, 2021

McConnell says Senate will be '100-car pileup' if Dems nuke filibuster, as progressives clamor to nix rule

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell threatened on Tuesday to turn the Senate into a "hundred car pileup" and block "even the most basic aspects" of its business if Democrats get rid of the legislative filibuster as progressives are asking. 

March 12, 2021

Biden, Harris to hit battleground states to sell COVID package that passed without any GOP support

Twenty-two congressional Democratic leaders and Vice President Kamala Harris will join the president to celebrate the passage of the massive measure, but no Republicans will be present. That’s because no House or Senate Republicans crossed the aisle to vote in favor of the bill.

March 11, 2021

McConnell trashes Biden's COVID relief package as 'multitrillion-dollar Trojan horse'

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is lambasting President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that Democrats passed through Congress along party-line votes as "a multitrillion-dollar Trojan horse."