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21 Jul 2023, 12:07 pm
Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins and independents Angus King and Kyrsten Sinema have drafted the Asylum Work Authorization Act, a bill that would cut the work authorization time to 30 days. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 9:18 am
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]
11 Mar 2024, 3:19 pm
That included the moderate Joe Manchin and the capricious Kyrsten Sinema. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 4:00 am
Like many other Democrats, in the last several years I have often found West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's efforts to undermine progressive legislation--especially on elections and the environment--frustrating, but I understood that unlike his frequent quisling comrade-in-arms Kyrsten Sinema, Manchin was severely constrained by the politics of his home state. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 8:43 am
If Democrats lose the governor's mansion in Michigan, Wisconsin, or (not and) Pennsylvania later this year, that would put a complete Republican lock on the Electoral College; and even if the Democrats hold those governorships, the legislatures-only theory hangs over all of us, with the Supreme Court likely to allow Republican legislatures in those swing states to ignore their governors and state courts and send Republican electors to vote in December 2024.This litany is familiar to… [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 10:06 am
Could Not Be Reversed," published this morning, demonstrates that D.C. statehood ought to be an easy call, even under the strained logic of filibuster lovers like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, because it could not be reversed by Republicans even after they establish one-party rule. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 8:04 am
Kyrsten Sinema announced she was leaving the Democratic Party, dampening Senate Democrats’ post-midterms celebrations and potentially endangering party’s chances of holding onto the seat in 2024. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
Essentially, the Manchin/Sinema position denies the very reason to have a democratic system, because it ignores that we hold elections to allow people to register their desire to change the country’s path (or not). [read post]
30 Oct 2021, 3:14 pm
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]
22 Feb 2021, 12:39 pm
La senadora demócrata Kyrsten Sinema, de Arizona, ha dicho que no apoyará el proyecto de ley porque, en su opinión, no está relacionado con la pandemia. [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:00 pm
Their votes for a filibuster “carve-out” would close the gap and ensure that Roe and Casey remain the law of the land, regardless of what Democratic filibuster-supporters Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema do, especially with Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey just announcing that he would support Schumer’s bill.Unless Collins and Murkowski are willing to codify Roe and vote to exempt the bill from the filibuster, the Republican senators’ claims that… [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 6:07 am
Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. [read post]
7 Aug 2021, 4:40 am
The Democrats, of course, have the slimmest possible Senate vote margin, and the party’s right flank — Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in particular — made it clear that they did not support eliminating the Senate’s de facto 60 vote requirement for legislation. [read post]
16 May 2019, 5:00 am
Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona), Justice Sonia Sotomayor, former Obama administration attorney general Loretta Lynch, and New York attorney general Barbara Underwood (famed for closing the Trump charitable foundation). [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 7:48 pm
But key swing voters Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have already expressed their opposition. [read post]
25 Nov 2021, 9:03 pm
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]
5 Mar 2021, 11:50 am
It was the most catastrophic intelligence failure since Sept. 11, 2001. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 2:47 pm
Kyrsten Sinema asked the witnesses how they planned to enhance information sharing between federal, state, and local law enforcement to ensure that entities across government have appropriate access to information on threats and trends in domestic terrorist suspects’ behavior. [read post]
13 Oct 2021, 12:57 pm
by Neil H. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 9:48 am
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]
