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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Tuesday that he would be open to primarying Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who do not support breaking the filibuster. 

The Senate will try to pass on Tuesday voting rights legislation by breaking the Senate’s centuries-old filibuster rule. 

The House passed on Thursday two “freedom to cheat” voting bills that would eviscerate Republican attempts to increase election integrity in states across the nation.

House Democrats on Tuesday blocked consideration of Rep. Ashley Hinson’s (R-IA) bill that would ensure that federal funds are used to reopen the nation’s schools with access to in-person learning. 

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) fundraised off of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) exclusive interview with Breitbart News, in which McCarthy said he would oust Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee if he would become Speaker of the House.

South Carolina Rep. Russell Fry (R) told Breitbart News Saturday that U.S. Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) enabled the progressive left by focusing his energy on the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said during the January 6 Day of Remembrance and Action candlelight vigil, which Antifa partly organized, that Republicans are the “shrinking minority party standing with the most authoritarian, fascistic elements of the whole country.”

Twenty-three House Democrats failed to build a “remembrance” exhibit by the first anniversary of the January 6 protests. 

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found in an analysis that the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill’s deficit-financing cut the bill’s growth potential in half. 

President Joe Biden’s razer-thin majority set a record for one of the most unproductive congressional terms in recent history.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said on Sunday he will oppose the $4.91 trillion Build Back Better Act, effectively killing the “mammoth” legislation.

The Senate’s delay of the $4.9 trillion Build Back Better Act to 2022 renders the passage of the bill through the House insignificant.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slamming him for discharging service members who have not obeyed his “ambiguous” vaccine mandate.

Reps. Ted Budd (R-NC) and Stephanie Bice (R-OK) introduced legislation Thursday to block President Joe Biden’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) sales until Biden cancels his executive orders blocking energy development on federal land.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) and House Republicans urged the U.S. Olympic Committee to bar American athletes from using the digital yuan during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) debt ceiling deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bypass the filibuster has sown Republican dissension and led to Democrats to continue abusing the filibuster, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The Senate passed a $2.5 trillion debt ceiling increase that will push the ceiling past the 2022 midterm elections by temporarily bypassing the Senate’s filibuster.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive comment Tuesday that Democrats’ Build Back Better Act big pharmaceutical carveouts puts Americans last by driving up prescription drugs.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Monday it is not “fair” for the $4.9 trillion Build Back Better Act to rely on budget gimmicks to mask the cost of the legislation.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said in a statement on Friday that the $4.9 trillion Build Back Better Act will “bankrupt the economy” while Americans continue to suffer from soaring inflation. 

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the Build Back Better Act would cost $3 trillion, far higher than its alleged $1.75 trillion price tag. 

The Senate passed a provision on Thursday that would allow the body to more easily raise the debt ceiling by breaking the Senate filibuster. 

The House passed legislation on Tuesday night to allow the Senate to bypass the legislative filibuster and more easily avert a potential default on the nation’s debt.

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, withdrew her nomination Tuesday after Democrats and Republicans opposed her controversial views to eliminate community banks and fossil fuel companies. 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has pitched Republicans to back a measure to allow Democrats to fast-track approval of legislation to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) efforts to fast-track the debt ceiling is a tactic to protect his own “ego,” a former senior GOP aide told Breitbart News.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Monday that the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better Act needs a “lot of changes” and that he remains skeptical as to whether Democrats can pass the bill before Christmas.

A legislative fight to raise the debt ceiling could test Republicans’ resolve as Congress heads towards a packed legislative schedule ahead of the new year. 

Nineteen Senate Republicans voted Thursday night to fund the federal government without defunding President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. 

The Senate passed a stop-gap funding bill on Thursday night, averting a government shutdown.

The Senate on Thursday blocked an amendment to a stop-gap funding bill that would defund President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. 

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) held the line on Thursday and kept Republicans nearly unanimously against voting for the stop-gap spending bill.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a Senate floor speech Thursday that the American people have the right to know if their representatives in Congress oppose President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.

The House passed on Thursday a stop-gap spending measure to fund the government through February as Republicans fight to defund President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.

House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) has pushed his 158-member caucus to oppose the stop-gap government funding to halt President Joe Biden’s agenda.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday declined to say if he would vote for a Republican amendment to defund President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.