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President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden retreats from Congress with deal-maker reputation in tatters

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this image from Senate Television, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden is set to meet privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party's long-stalled voting and elections legislation. Before he arrived Sinema blunted the bill's chances further, declaring she could not support a shortsighted rules change to get past a Republican blockade. (Senate Television via AP) ** FILE **

Destroying the filibuster is destroying the Democratic Party

By Tammy Bruce

Biden's First Year Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democrats and Biden: One election, one year later

By Rep. Gary Palmer

In this image from Senate Television, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)

Manchin calls out Democrats for ‘misleading’ the American people about the filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden takes off his mask to speak about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, on March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Biden’s rocky first year sapped support for Democratic Party, left voters worried about what’s next

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks to the media after senate democrats luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Biden is meeting privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party's long-stalled voting and elections legislation. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Two Senate Democrats join with GOP to hand Biden bipartisan defeat on remaking filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

$In this Jan. 24, 2019 file photo, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington. Senate Democrats scrambled Tuesday in search of an alternative to change the filibuster without blowing it up after the conference fractured over a plan to use the "nuclear option." (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)$

Democrats hunt for new ways to twist filibuster, force passage of their election overhaul

By Haris Alic and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters alongside, from left, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., during a press conference regarding the Democratic party's shift to focus on voting rights at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Senate Democrats barrel toward doomed vote to remake filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Jerome Powell and Federal Reserve Incompetence Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Jerome Powell is incompetent, Senate should reject his nomination

By Jenny Beth Martin

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center, leaves the House chambers after delivering his State of the Commonwealth address before a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly in the House chambers at the Capitol, Monday Jan. 17, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Glenn Youngkin calls on divided General Assembly to help enact ‘vision of change’ in first address

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., left, holds the door of an elevator open for Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., as they leave a meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Dems lob racially charged attacks at party members who refuse to nuke Senate filibuster

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., leads a hearing to review the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mission to focus priority on consumers on Capitol Hill in Washington, In this March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Rep. Maxine Waters: Sens. Sinema, Manchin don’t care about minorities

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks during a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in this file photo. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Romney says Biden had a bad year and needs a reset

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, laughs as her brother Thomas D' Alesandro III, right, makes a joke as he introduces her husband Paul, left, during a street renaming ceremony in her behalf, Friday, Jan 5, 2007 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)

Those making federal policy shouldn’t be playing the stock market

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., left and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, walk together on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Romney: Biden botched election reform by not talking to centrist Republicans

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., listens during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Senate Democrats in tough races defy Biden on Nord Stream 2 sanctions

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speak to reporters outside the White House after a meeting with President Joe Biden, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Republicans prepare their wish list for filibuster-free Senate

By Kerry Picket, Haris Alic and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference after the weekly Democratic policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats boxed in, can’t retreat from doomed agenda for fear of further damaging Biden

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, second from right, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Senators throw jabs at each other ahead of tough vote for sanctions on Russian pipeline

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Senate Democrats block GOP bill to hit Russian pipeline with sanctions

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times