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21 Jan 2022, 11:08 am by David Super
  Ironically, if the filibuster survives to give Democrats a seat at the table on appropriations, and to prevent wholesale repeal of progressive legislation, the two people progressives will have to thank are Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 9:48 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan  In the days leading up to the moment when Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema revealed that they honestly and truly are willing to allow constitutional democracy to die, a minor story hit the wires about the University of Alabama's football coach, Nick Saban, who was reported to have urged his longtime almost-like-family friend Manchin to support voting rights legislation. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 9:18 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Especially now that Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have joined with every Senate Republican to end American democracy -- although Manchin somehow thinks that "the government" will protect voting rights, even without Congress requiring it -- pretty much nothing stands in the way of Republicans (mostly at the state level) now fully gutting voting rights, installing partisans in formerly nonpartisan counting-and-certification roles, and so on.No matter… [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 11:44 am by Alaric Dearment
The post Kyrsten Sinema Is Hindenburg In A Halter Dress appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 12:19 pm by Katherine Pompilio
Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin pose challenges for their own party by standing firm in their positions against changing filibuster rules for voting rights legislation. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 10:37 am by Katherine Pompilio
Kyrsten Sinema has announced that she will not support changing Senate filibuster rules to pass legislation under “any circumstances,” says the New York Times. [read post]
Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) spoke on the Senate floor and stated she would not support changing the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 8:00 am by Gene Takagi
Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) announced she would not support changing Senate rules that have long allowed a minority of senators to block legislation. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Instead, the West Virginia plutocrat, along with his oddball partner Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), insists that the only way to counter the anti-democracy bills that Republicans have been passing on a purely partisan basis in states across the country is to find 10 Senate Republicans who are willing on a bipartisan basis to undo their own party’s dirty work.In short, things look worse than they ever have. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
He and Kyrsten Sinema refuse to entertain any change in the Senate’s filibuster rules. [read post]
25 Nov 2021, 9:03 pm by Omar Khodor
Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) reportedly stated that he and other Democrats are “going to try to negotiate with them and get a very strong, bold bill out of the Senate which will then go back to the House and pass. [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Reinstatement of that rule would be most welcome, but it won’t occur absent a change in the filibuster rule—which Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema oppose. [read post]
20 Nov 2021, 1:41 pm by Jennifer Hart
The Act now heads to the Senate, where Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed significant skepticism for many of its provisions, indicating that further changes are likely coming to the scope of the bill’s spending as well as the tax provisions that are being added and changed to pay for new spending in areas like clean energy, education and child care subsidies, healthcare, affordable housing and elder care. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 11:13 am by Tom Smith
Such as: Why on earth would Senators Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Maggie Hassan, and Catherine Cortez Masto continue to acquiesce with their party’s extraordinarily foolish attempt to shove a set of FDR-sized spending programs through a 50–50 Senate? [read post]
30 Oct 2021, 3:14 pm by Kevin J. Lenhard
Democrats removed various programs and benefits from the bill in an effort to garner approval from two moderate Democratic lawmakers, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 9:26 am
The proposed tax would almost certainly face court challenges, but given the blockade on more conventional tax rate increases imposed by Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Democrats have few other options for financing their domestic agenda.... [read post]