Justice Department and FBI officials Tuesday talked about their investigation of the Capitol siege after nearly a week without federal briefings on the violence.Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer of New York will run the place instead of Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the two men are already discussing a bipartisan agreement on committee budgets and procedures.
On some issues, Schumer should have little problem. With 50 votes plus Harris, Biden’s Cabinet nominations should be easy to confirm fairly quickly; judicial nominations too.With 50 votes, Democrats will also be able to pass a budget bill, through the process known as reconciliation. They’ll do their best to pack the measure with anything that can be described as budgetary: an economic stimulus package, a modest expansion of Obamacare, tax hikes on the wealthy.
Back then, McConnell spurned Obama’s appeals to compromise and made sure other Republicans did too. He believed his party’s route to power lay inAnd he succeeded. Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives in 2010, a majority in theSo there’s every reason to expect McConnell to try the same gambit again.A 50-50 Senate is inherently unstable. It gives every senator a chance to create an instant majority by voting with the other side.
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