{"id":1229606,"date":"2022-01-21T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1229606"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:53:32","slug":"pelosi-lays-out-dems-agenda-after-failures-on-build-back-better-voting-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-lays-out-dems-agenda-after-failures-on-build-back-better-voting-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Lays Out Dems\u2019 Agenda After Failures On Build Back Better, Voting Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-lays-out-dems-agenda-after-failures-on-build-back-better-voting-bills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1229606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats would shift their focus to passing a government funding bill and legislation aimed at boosting competitiveness with China after their Build Back Better and voting bills stalled in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Top appropriations members have already started meeting in hopes of passing a broader funding agreement before the Feb. 18 deadline. Legislators have already been forced to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/rosa-delauro-house-appropriations-congress-deal-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/house-passes-funding-bill-clearing-way-keep-government-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continuing resolutions<\/a> in lieu of a longer bill, essentially keeping most funding levels as they were during former President Donald Trump\u2019s final year in office.<\/p>\n<p>A China competitiveness bill <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/chuck-schumer-china-manufacturing-semiconductors\/\">sailed through the Senate<\/a> on a bipartisan basis in June 2021, but has since stalled in the House. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/china-slams-bill-bolstering-american-competitiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Cold War Mentality\u2019: China Doesn\u2019t Like Bipartisan Bill Bolstering American Competitiveness)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi also said in the Dear Colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/12122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> that the Foreign Affairs Committee was advancing a \u201crobust\u201d sanctions bill against Russian officials and financial institutions that also bolsters Ukraine\u2019s ability to defend itself against a potential invasion and a bipartisan bill to ensure veterans exposed to toxic substances in burn pits are granted adequate medical care.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7356924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7356924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majority Leader Charles Schumer led the effort to advance his party\u2019s voting bills through the Senate, and moved to alter filibuster rules to pass them. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The letter came two days after Senate Republicans filibustered Democrats\u2019 signature voting bills once again, with the party-line vote following a marathon day that saw the chamber engage in substantial debate. Following the vote, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/senate-caps-history-making-day-rejecting-filibuster-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved to change the Senate\u2019s filibuster rules<\/a> in order to pass the voting bills, but Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/senate-caps-history-making-day-rejecting-filibuster-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined Republicans<\/a> in opposing the measure, delivering the legislation a likely-fatal wound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the vote was not successful in the Senate, the visibility given to the debate under the leadership of Leader Chuck Schumer and the patriotic presentations by the Senate Democrats strengthens our hand as we go forward,\u201d Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also follows the demise of President Joe Biden\u2019s domestic spending package, though talks may restart in the coming days in hopes of passing a fraction of it this year. The package stalled after Manchin said he could not support it given its size and current inflation levels, leading to several <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/20\/joe-manchin-fires-back-after-gloves-off-statement-opposition-bidens-spending-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tense days of back-and-forth<\/a> between him and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats would shift their focus to passing a government funding bill and legislation aimed at boosting competitiveness with China after their Build Back Better &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}