Manchin In The Middle.
WV Sen. Manchin continues to thwart progressive efforts to transform large swaths of the American economy with measures he deems to radical. (The Hill)
“Democratic senators launched a furious effort on the Senate floor Wednesday to back centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) off his opposition to a national paid family leave program, which sources said was going to be cut from the budget reconciliation package.
Senate Health Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a leading proponent of paid family leave, cornered Manchin on the Senate floor to get him to change his mind — and they refused to take no for an answer.
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The Unites States Congress, the Senate in particular, is so bitterly divided down partisan lines and nearly equal in representative numbers that it only takes 1 Senator to grand stand and make legislative priorities a pipe dream. Senator Manchin, who hails from one of the poorest, if not the very poorest state is filling the role of party pooper. He has the ability through his yea or nay vote to completely upend the Biden Administration’s most ambitions efforts to inject more fairness into the American economy.
