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NEW: As Biden takes the stage at a convention drenched in nostalgia for a more collegial capital, number of his Democratic colleagues are telling him not to get his hopes up
With @hillhulse, our own Master of the Senate, on what ‘21 may look like > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/biden-congress.html
With @hillhulse, our own Master of the Senate, on what ‘21 may look like > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/biden-congress.html
Most Senate Ds want to see if, post-Trump, Rs will be more liberated - as Biden has predicted.
But they’re more skeptical and SCHUMER hinted he’s ready to end the filibuster
It Rs don’t “see the light,” Democrats wil push their agenda “with them or without them,” he told us
But they’re more skeptical and SCHUMER hinted he’s ready to end the filibuster
It Rs don’t “see the light,” Democrats wil push their agenda “with them or without them,” he told us
As Durbin said, "the Senate of 12 years ago does not exist today."
Just a sampling of who's gone since Biden left the Senate - and why deal-cutting is harder now:
McCain
Kennedy
Byrd
Inouye
Stevens
Reid
Snowe
Levin
Warner
Specter
Voinovich
Just a sampling of who's gone since Biden left the Senate - and why deal-cutting is harder now:
McCain
Kennedy
Byrd
Inouye
Stevens
Reid
Snowe
Levin
Warner
Specter
Voinovich
. @ChrisMurphyCT sums up the perspective of many Senate Democrats re: working with their Republican counterparts:
“Shame on me if I went to kick the football after it was pulled out from under me six times" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/biden-congress.html
“Shame on me if I went to kick the football after it was pulled out from under me six times" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/biden-congress.html
When Biden left the Senate, five of the six senators from the Dakotas + Montana were Democrats.
Today five of the six are Republicans.
Today five of the six are Republicans.
