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American politician and businessman (born 1947)
Available reporting in the provided dossier does not show evidence that Jeffrey Epstein took steps to ensure Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court; the sources focus on the 2018 confirmat...
The available materials do not provide a concrete count of Democrats who switched their registration to Independent or Republican in the past year; reporting and studies instead document without tabul...
Two independents — Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine) — continue to caucus with Senate Democrats in the 119th Congress, and reporting and official Senate listings count them with the Democrat...
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 is a sweeping, multi-topic reconciliation law that channels roughly hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy and climate programs, reforms tax rules ...
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act passed the House on January 13, 2022, by , and failed in the Senate when a cloture motion on January 19, 2022, fell , leaving the bill without the 60 votes neede...
A slate of targeted procedural fixes—ranging from a “talking filibuster,” carve-outs for voting and democracy bills, a “step‑down” cloture process or one‑off nuclear option, and raising the floor for ...
Several high-profile Democratic losses and departures in 2024 changed the party’s federal representation: Democrats lost the Senate majority after Republicans flipped at least four Democratic-held Sen...
From 2021 through early 2022, Chuck Schumer publicly signaled willingness to change or at least vote on altering the Senate’s legislative filibuster to advance major Democratic priorities — especially...
Current debates about reforming or eliminating the Senate filibuster center on a clash between and protections for Senate minority rights, with concrete reform proposals ranging from a full abolition ...
Multiple reputable reports show several high-profile Senate leaders have announced they will leave the Senate before or by the 2026 election cycle, including top-tier figures such as Senator Mitch McC...
Senate majority leaders like Chuck Schumer act as the principal architects and public conveners of filibuster reform efforts: they set the agenda, call for votes, and can push the Senate toward using ...
Senator Joe Manchin did not articulate a publicly stated set of specific conditions for ending the 2025 government shutdown in the materials reviewed; available reporting and interviews either do not ...
Twenty U.S. senators publicly pledged to forgo or donate pay during the 2018–2019 federal government shutdown, part of a broader group of 102 members of Congress who announced they would decline or re...
The period 2021–2025 saw repeated, serious proposals to change the Senate filibuster ranging from procedural tweaks to outright elimination, with . Political reality kept most proposals unrealized: in...
The 2013 Senate rule change led by Majority Leader Harry Reid passed 52–48 with ; the majority of Democrats supported the move while three Democrats opposed it. The change curtailed filibusters for mo...
James Carville and other commentators contend that . Parallel developments, including Senator Joe Manchin’s formal break with the party and polling and think‑tank critiques that the left has damaged t...
Senator Alex Padilla publicly the components of the Build Back Better agenda, especially its housing and clean-energy investments, and he major climate legislation that passed Congress in 2022, notabl...