Wednesday night on Capitol Hill: A vote some Democrats have waited years to hold. But with Republicans ready to block the voting rights bill in the Senate, Democrats are also poised to vote on whether to change the Senate’s rules. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins Judy Woodruff to discuss ...
Thursday on the NewsHour, the House of Representatives is on the verge of passing the president's Build Back Better bill. Then, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. hit an all-time high in what the Biden administration calls "a national crisis." And, many incarcerated women are victims of ...
... over the health care law. Biden appears comfortable in this space, embarked on an agenda in Congress that's rooted in his top legislative priority — the $4 trillion "build back better" investments now being shaped as his American Jobs and American Families plans. To land the bills on his desk ...
... way that was not correct, because of the Supreme Court weighing in at the end. And yet, two years later, by overwhelming consensus, Democrats, Republicans in the House and the Senate, passed reforms to the voting process because of all the attention. Remember those butterfly ballots and the hanging chads ...
In the three days since Sen. Joe Manchin threw up a massive roadblock on the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better agenda, Democrats have begun the scramble to salvage the bill or at least its key priorities. For progressives, the breakdown was what they feared all along. Yamiche Alcindor talks ...
... bill would also provide tax incentives to encourage manufacturers to build facilities in the coalfields, potentially employing miners who have lost their jobs, according to the union. WATCH: Biden announces 500 million free tests, other changes to COVID-19 strategy The next steps remain highly uncertain for the president and ...
... was an untrustworthy partner who “went back on his word.” Jayapal said Democrats were working with the White House on alternative means of reaching the bill's goals through executive or administrative actions, without legislation.The White House appeared to take interest in Manchin's preference for a reimagined bill ...
... the Build Back Better bill is just about to pass the House in the next few hours. What has taken it so long? What is -- what are the last knots that had to be untied? Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX): Well, it was a very complicated process. So, on the ...
... Act will endure as one of the defining feats of the 21st century. The world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today. And that makes me feel very, very good. Lisa Desjardins: The bill would be the largest climate investment in U.S ...
... Senate better than perhaps any president in modern American history, he will get it done. Judy Woodruff: Are you prepared to see big changes, though, in the Build Back Better bill as it is, for example, cutting in half the threshold household income amount for the child tax credit? Rep ...
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