With bulk of their agenda on the line, Democrats gird for battle over $3.5 trillion budget package
Lawmakers will try to assemble major planks of Biden’s agenda, including health care, climate change and anti-poverty programs
Democrats race to resolve House-Senate disputes on $3.5T megabill
Democrats are hustling to finalize their gigantic social spending plan during the dog days of summer recess, wary they will blow their target date to...
Progressives launch campaign to exclude gas from Congress’s clean electricity program
Progressives are pushing to try to keep natural gas out of a Democratic proposal aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric sector.
Remaking the economy
President Biden’s domestic agenda seems to be back on track in Congress. House Democrats resolved a procedural spat this week, and they and Senate Democrats...
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Safety Net Expansion
The Senate took a major step on Wednesday toward enacting a vast expansion of the nation’s social safety net, approving a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint...
House Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan for Vast Expansion of Safety Net
A divided House on Tuesday approved a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that would pave the way for a vast expansion of social safety net and...
Finding the Will to Stave Off a Darker Future
In June 1988 a NASA scientist, Dr. James Hansen, appeared on a very hot day in Washington and told a group of powerful senators that...
In victory for Biden, U.S. Senate OKs $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill
North Carolina’s Tillis and Burr defy Trump by helping to craft compromise legislation The U.S. Senate passed 69-30 on Tuesday a sweeping bipartisan $1.2 trillion...