The senators have been encouraged by President Biden to keep working on the effort after he walked away from a Republican-only proposal this week.
At the same time, Democrats are laying the groundwork to pass some or all of President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure package on their own.
After six months of Democratic control in Washington, the party’s progressive wing is growing increasingly restless as campaign promises go undone.
“Truth is hard stuff, but we’ve got a responsibility to it,” said Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of six Republicans who supported the commission. “We just can’t pretend that nothing bad happened, or that people just got too excitable.”
Most Republicans oppose the bill that would establish a commission to investigate the attack by Donald Trump supporters over the election.
Senate Republicans are signaling that they will try to block — or at least slow down — a Democratic effort to create a 9/11-style commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Senators overwhelmingly approved the the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 by an 89-2 vote.
Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan.
Legislation that was once stalled on Capitol Hill is now closer than ever to consensus, lawmakers of both parties said Wednesday.
The deepening of the scrutiny of the congressman comes as Gaetz has retained two prominent New York attorneys as he faces a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls.
McConnell unleashed the dire forecast of a Senate that would all but cease to function, implying that Republicans would grind business to a halt by refusing to give consent for routine operations — from the start time for sessions, to the reading of long legislative texts, to quorum call votes.
The officials are blaming other federal agencies — and each other — for their failure to defend the building as supporters of then-President Trump overwhelmed barriers.
