Items Tagged with 'Sen. Joe Manchin'

Lawmakers have their work cut for them when it comes to figuring out how to satisfy all the row crop producers with a stake in the farm bill commodity title.

No matter what happens in November, it won’t be easy for congressional Republicans to block the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda.

Lawmakers are getting the ball rolling on another round of disaster assistance, even as much of the West and Plains are baking in drought.

Senate Democrats don’t have a vote to spare this week as they try to pass their historic climate package, including more than $20 billion aimed at helping farmers adopt practices that reduce greenhouse emissions.

The latest inflation numbers are casting new doubts on Democratic efforts to salvage President Biden’s climate agenda.

The House is set to debate tightening reporting requirements for foreign ownership in the U.S. ag sector. Amendments addressing that issue will be considered as part of a sweeping U.S. competitiveness bill that’s on the House floor starting today.

Senate Democrats are nearing the end of their internal fight over whether to change the filibuster rules to pass elections legislation. The result is not in doubt, given that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., remain steadfast in defending the filibuster.

Sen. Joe Manchin is showing no sign of compromising on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, vital as it may be to the administration’s climate policy.

President Joe Biden plans to personally appeal this week to the key senator holding up the administration’s massive spending package, and the long-awaited nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration gets a hearing in the Senate.

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill insist they are getting closer to a deal on President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Sen. Joe Manchin, one of two key moderate Democrats, told reporters Thursday the talks were “making good progress.” But he also said he didn’t expect a deal “anytime soon.”