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Indiana Attorney General has begun investigations into five Big Tech corporations for censorship of conservative content involving Joe Biden’s nominee, Vanita Gupta. 

The Senate parliamentarian has allowed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to use reconciliation to ram through additional pieces of legislation.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) conveyed Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal due to six or seven Democrats who oppose raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.

When asked about the moderate Senate Democrat’s concerns about the bill, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said they will be part of ongoing discussions with the president.

Left-wing actress Debra Messing called for the arrest of Georgia Republicans for their attempt to remove Delta Air Lines’ state tax break after the company’s CEO criticized the state’s new election integrity law.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said Thursday that he would support a 2021 amnesty.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) would “do the right thing” and support ending the filibuster rule to pass voting legislation with a simple majority.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Democrat election process legislation will receive “full consideration in committee and eventually on the Senate floor.”

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said it would help him “more than anything” if the Democrat Party campaigned against him in West Virginia with the intention of pressuring him to do away with the filibuster. 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Thursday that Democrats’ election overhaul bill needs bipartisan support, a setback for the party as calls mount for Democrats to abolish the 60-vote filibuster in order to pass the bill.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Gayle Connelly Manchin, wife of moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), for a federal position that pays roughly $160,000, according to reports.

President Joe Biden’s progressive agenda is facing opposition from his own party beyond Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who with other Senate Democrats, is not falling in line with a range of priorities the administration has established. This includes gun legislation, the $15 minimum wage, and changing the filibuster to pass legislation that would minimize legal immigration, voter ID laws, and the free-market.

Hollywood celebrities are creating a social media swarm in an effort to help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) end the filibuster. They are also waging a shame campaign against moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), who have broken ranks by so far refusing to back the left-wing effort.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) said he is “very concerned” about whether Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will keep his vow to prevent abolishing the filibuster. Justice said, “I would

Club for Growth President David McIntosh told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement Tuesday that his organization launched two ads to pressure Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) against the For the People Act, contending that the legislation would be “disastrous” for the country.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and conservative activists will hold a rally at the West Virginia state capitol Saturday against the “Corrupt Politicians Act.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday titled “The Scorched-Earth Senate,” saying “[i]f Democrats kill the filibuster by 50-50 vote, they’ll release furies they can barely imagine.”

The Judicial Crisis Network is urging Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to vote “no” on President Biden’s Associate Attorney General nominee Vanita Gupta, pointing to her stake in a company accused of producing and selling a key ingredient used to make China White heroine to Mexican drug cartels.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Chuck Schumer said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that everything “will be on the table,” including changing the filibuster rule if Republicans in the Senate obstruct President Joe Biden’s agenda.

Biden spoke to reporters after Democrats rammed through their partisan $1.9 trillion American Rescue package through the Senate using budget reconciliation and their simple Senate majority.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) flip flopped by voting for the purely partisan $1.9 trillion coronavirus package after previously calling for a “new era of bipartisanship.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on this week’s broadcast of “The Sunday Show” on MSNBC that it was a positive development that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) signaled he is willing to use the simple majority reconciliation process in the future to pass legislation.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)  said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was open to using reconciliation as they did to pass coronavirus relief, which allows a simple majority to pass legislation in the Senate.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that all 100 Senators want to raise the federal minimum wage.

The background check gun controls which were introduced in the House last week bring back Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) 2013 gun control push and make his support for the current legislation crucial to Democrat success.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held open a vote on a minimum wage amendment Friday to buy time to save the $1.9 trillion coronavirus package after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) raised an unforeseen objection.

The Senate is poised to vote down Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) $15 minimum wage amendment to the coronavirus spending package, with seven Democrats and one Independent joining all 50 Republicans in rejecting the change.

Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Tuesday evening.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she met with Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on Monday but that she hadn’t made a decision on whether to support her confirmation.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is standing firm against nuking the Senate’s filibuster, telling Capitol Hill pool reporters again on Monday that he will “never” support ending the rule. 

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that eventually Democratic Senators will have the votes to “repeal the filibuster.”

On Thursday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) responded to charges that opposition to some of President Joe Biden’s nominations is based in racism and sexism by pointing to Democratic opposition to the nominations of Seema Verma, Ben Carson,

The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), President Joe Biden’s nominee, to serve as secretary of energy.

Neera Tanden, nominee for Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wrote on Twitter that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is “high on her supply.” Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim confronted Murkowski Wednesday about the reports of Tanden’s attack.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), who represents the urban city of Louisville, shot arrows at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for not being “representative of most of the country” and lamented his influence as a crucial swing vote in the U.S. Senate.

The White House on Wednesday signaled support for Office of Management and Budget nominee Neera Tanden after her Senate confirmation vote was rescheduled.