Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego on Monday formally launched his 2024 campaign for the seat held by Independenr Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who officially registered as an Independent in December after months of derailing the Biden administration’s policy agenda and preserving tax loopholes for her corporate allies. “The problem isn’t that Senator …
Read More »Momentum to ‘Replace Sinema’ Already Building After She Ditches Dems
Jessica Corbett While the White House and Democratic congressional leadership are publicly hoping U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s departure from the party won’t change much in Washington, D.C., progressives in her home state of Arizona and across the nation are already pushing to replace the newly declared Independent if she runs …
Read More »Former Friends And Foes Unsurprised By Sinema’s Defection From Democratic Party
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Friday morning that she was leaving the Democratic Party, a move that was not surprising to political observers and longtime former allies and foes of the senior senator who are now looking ahead to 2024. “Clearly, it gets her out of …
Read More »Kyrsten Sinema Has Left The Democratic Party, Registered As An Independent
Ariana Figueroa, Arizona Mirror Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona’s senior U.S. senator, has left the Democratic Party and re-registered as an independent. “Nothing will change about my values or my behavior,” she told Politico, which broke the news Friday morning. The first-term senator wrote in an opinion piece for the Arizona Republic that she …
Read More »Sinema Calls for Restoring 60-Vote Filibuster for Senate Confirmations
Right-wing Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona went beyond her usual defense of the filibuster on Monday to argue in favor of reinstating the Senate’s supermajority requirement for all judicial and executive branch confirmations, drawing the ire of progressives who have long criticized the upper chamber’s anti-democratic rules. “Not only …
Read More »Sinema Received Over $500K From Private Equity Before Shielding Industry From Tax Hikes
Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Senate Democrats passed a pared-backed reconciliation package on Sunday, but only after a pair of widely supported provisions that would have made it harder for Wall Street tycoons to reduce their tax bills were removed at the behest of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema—the right-wing Arizona Democrat who …
Read More »Senate Passes Major Health, Tax And Climate Bill In Boost For Democrats
Ariana Figueroa, New Jersey Monitor The U.S. Senate, along party lines, passed a sweeping energy, health care, climate and tax package Sunday afternoon, following an overnight marathon of votes that resulted in just a handful of notable changes to the legislation. The 755-page bill was passed after Vice President Kamala …
Read More »Senate Preps Big Tax, Climate And Health Bill After Deal With Sinema
Jacob Fischler, Virginia Mercury U.S. Senate Democrats’ wide-ranging tax, climate and health bill appears set to pass after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona struck a deal to soften the measure’s corporate tax increase and a second tax hike aimed at wealthy finance-sector workers, Schumer told …
Read More »After Shielding Tax Loophole for Private Equity, Sinema Backs Senate Bill
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced late Thursday that she has agreed to back Democrats’ new reconciliation bill, but only after securing changes to a proposed levy on major corporations and forcing the removal of a provision targeting a notorious tax loophole exploited by rich investors. In a statement, Sinema (D-Ariz.) said that …
Read More »Arizona Democratic Party Censures Sen. Sinema After She Blocks Voting Rights Legislation
On Saturday, leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party voted to censure Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema after she, along with West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin blocked changes to the filibuster that would have cleared the way for voting rights legislation. In a statement released, ADP said that last fall, its state …
Read More »Voting Rights Bills Once Again Blocked By Republicans
Senate Republicans once again blocked a pair of voting rights bills in a Wednesday evening procedural vote, holding firm in their opposition to a top priority of President Joe Biden and prompting Democrats to take up filibuster reform – even without full party support. In an expected loss, Democrats failed to …
Read More »Abortion Rights Groups Tie Their Fight To Voting Rights
Barbara Rodriguez, Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th The abortion rights group NARAL said Tuesday it will no longer back candidates who don’t support Democratic efforts to pass federal voting rights legislation, just hours after the similarly aligned Emily’s List said it will pull its endorsement of U.S. Sen. …
Read More »Schumer: Senate To Vote On Filibuster Change For Voting Rights Bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Monday that the Senate is prepared to debate changes on the filibuster rule if Republicans continue to block the advancement of voting rights legislation. In a letter to other senators, the New York Democrat set a deadline of Jan. 17, Martin Luther King …
Read More »Democrats Announce Deal On Prescription Drug Pricing
On Tuesday, Congressional Democrats announced they had agreed on a plan to overhaul prescription drug pricing in the country. “Fixing prescription drug prices consistently has been a top issue for Americans year after year,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said at a news conference. “We’ve heard this from people across …
Read More »President Biden Signs Consider Teachers Act Into Law
Last week, President Joe Biden signed the Consider Teachers Act into law. The bill, co-led by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (R-IN), Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), will correct a problem with the TEACH Grant Program that has caused thousands of teachers to …
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