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Now that the Covid stimulus bill has passed, the Democrats have a few choices as far as what comes next.

March 11, 2021

Now that the Covid stimulus bill has passed, the Democrats have a few choices as far as what comes next. The House has already passed several pieces of major legislation that the Senate could take up. Most pressing of those is HR 1, the For the American People Act, which would safeguard federal elections and expand voting rights around the country. But, of course, the filibuster looks like it will get in the way.

Hayes Brown thinks that he might have a solution that gets the bill to Biden's desk. "I think it’s about time that we embraced a little something that I would like to call 'the Manchin rule,'" Brown writes. And what is the Manchin rule? Well, you won't find it by Googling — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. hasn't endorsed it.

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