From atop the mountains of Davos, the West Virginia senator has brought down his next big idea: Bring back the supercommittee!

The two senators, who have blocked bill after bill, high-fived at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.

The West Virginia senator isn’t saying he’ll copy Kyrsten Sinema and switch to independent, but he isn’t shutting down the idea either.

Senator Joe Manchin isn’t giving up on his fight for permitting reform, even after it was removed from the annual defense spending bill.

Some Democrats hope to get a revived version of the popular policy into a government funding package. Here’s what needs to happen in the coming days for this plan to succeed.

42 Republicans and one Democrat voted against giving rail workers paid sick leave. Here are their names.

Senator Joe Manchin voted to impose a labor agreement on rail workers, but not give them seven paid sick days. He was the only Democrat to do so.

Democrats, Republicans, PACs, Senate candidates, House candidates, right-wingers to left-wingers (one or two): SBF peddled influence with them all.

The side deal that Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin cut to pass the Inflation Reduction Act now threatens to be the proximate cause of a government shutdown.

“I know everything about my caucus,” the Senate majority leader enthused. “I care about them. I love them.”

Yes, Build Back Better eventually became Build Back Manchin, but for Democrats, it’s better than nothing.

The federal government is pretty good at handling the unique problems of seniors. Why don't we do the same for parents and kids?

The biggest takeaway from a long weekend of legislative action is that this is no way to run a country.

While the bill that just survived the Senate is a whittled-down version of the Build Back Better Act, it still puts the Democratic party on a promising new path.

The upper chamber's “vote-a-rama” may sound like a real fun way to spend a Saturday night, but guess what?

Why can’t Democrats deliver the steep tax increases on corporations and the rich that voters demand?

Could the Senate—gasp!—actually pass legislation to reform the obscure law that nearly enabled Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election?

The Manchin climate compromise continues the worrisome trend of treating oil and gas infrastructure as a security necessity—even though they endanger more than they protect.