Progressive Democrats are pushing for Senate leadership to shift from the Biden administration’s legislative agenda to an all-out push to “reform” the filibuster amid concerns that the Senate is becoming a “legislative graveyard.”
The Senate will tangle with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief bill at the end of this week. And while the bill passed easily through the House late last week, Democrats in the Senate will likely have to push the measure through using “reconciliation” — a procedural method that allows them to pass a “budget-related” measure with a simple majority vote but leaves progressives’ agenda items, like the “minimum wage” on the cutting room floor.
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