Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.

In order to avert a catastrophe for democracy, the party must get over its Joe Manchin problem ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

The party may put Biden’s spending bill on the back burner and yank voting rights to the front of the line.

Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.

The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

With Build Back Better on ice, the upper body is moving forward with its regular round of defense spending.

Dour Democrats are forgetting that Joe Biden ran as a moderate against Trump and hatred—not on massive policy plans.

Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema could leave the party—or the Grim Reaper could come calling.

Maine independent Senator Angus King is leading a chorus of voices urging the president to get in the game.

As the party seeks to shave down the price tag of the Biden agenda to appease holdouts, some Americans are going to get left behind.

They really think this is a campaign issue for Republicans? Has any candidate—even one—ever lost an election because he voted to raise the debt limit?

Leave it to Democrats to win a big political fight and then act as though they lost.

We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).

Democrats have to prove that the government can deliver for people. If they don’t, authoritarianism wins.

Dig, if you will, the reconciliation budget package; the two Joes engaged in a deal.

America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.

It will pass. And we’ll all forget how worried we were that it wouldn’t.

The Senate minority leader is happy to risk economic collapse if it helps the GOP in the midterm elections.