KYRSTEN SINEMA

Martin Luther King III came to Arizona with harsh words for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose refusal to change filibuster rules makes voting rights legislation unlikely to pass in the Senate.

Just over a year ago, millions of energized young people, women, voters of color and independents joined forces to send Joe Biden to the White House.

American families who depended on the enhanced child tax credit for extra income will not receive payments in January. Stormy Johnson, a mother and student support specialist in West Virginia, joined CBSN to discuss how the lapse is affecting her community and her message to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who opposes the enhanced credit's extension.

Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are not backing down on the filibuster, likely crushing President Biden's hopes of passing voting rights bill.

Senate Republicans are set to block two voting rights bills, leading Democrats to consider filibuster changes to pass them.

Biden met with Senate Democrats on Thursday.

President Joe Biden is all but conceding defeat for this year on the Democrats' big elections and voting rights legislation.

Thursday saw a closed-door huddle by an embattled President Joe Biden with his own party’s senators, apparently for naught.

A senior strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday responded to a floor speech by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., encouraging Democrats to keep attacking her

The senator from Arizona has been against changing the Senate rules.

President Joe Biden barely had time to shake off Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's body slam Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court knocked him down again.

Ahead of a meeting with President Biden, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema dashed any hope of changing the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.

Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema declared Thursday that she will not vote to suspend the filibuster in order to enact two voting bills, all but guaranteeing that President Biden's top legislative priority will fail.

Senate Democrats are trying to force a public showdown over their sweeping elections legislation.

Two of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's former aides have become key aides for corporate giants looking to impact President Joe Biden's agenda.

There was a prominent Atlanta resident missing Tuesday when President Joe Biden swung through the city to press for voting rights protections: Stacey Abrams.

Democrats are mounting an impassioned bid to overhaul Senate rules that stand in the way of their sweeping voting legislation.

The White House says President Joe Biden will renew his push for federal voting rights legislation in a speech next week in Georgia.

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is sounding a skeptical note about the prospects of easing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance stalled voting legislation.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote soon on easing filibuster rules in an effort to advance stalled voting rights legislation.

President Joe Biden only rarely talks about last January's violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the conspiratorial lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Democrats are trying to pick up the pieces after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin effectively crushed President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill.

Despite months of being courted and cajoled, Sen. Joe Manchin is still not a yes on President Joe Biden's big $2 trillion domestic package.

The path forward for voting rights legislation is a difficult one: Republicans are unlikely to support the effort and have labeled previous bills as a "federal takeover" of the elections system.

Democrats are hoping that Congress is nearing the finish line in its seven-month trek on President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion social and environment package.

Democrats have finally driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of family services, health care and climate initiatives through the House.

It took half a year but Democrats have driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of social and climate initiatives through the House. It gets no easier in the Senate, where painful Republican amendments, restrictive rules and Joe Manchin lurk. Facing unbroken GOP opposition, Democrats finally reached agreement among themselves and eased the compromise through the House on Nov. 19.

Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, spoke with NPR about how Democrats plan to secure all 50 member votes needed to pass President Biden's $2.2 trillion social spending bill.

The Senate will try to pass the Build Back Better Act before Christmas, and it will likely make changes to the House bill.

President Joe Biden’s choice to become one of the top banking regulators endured a contentious nomination hearing Thursday, with Republican senators warning she would nationalize the U.S. banking system and Democrats saying she’s eminently qualified and would be tough overseer of Wall Street.

President Joe Biden nominated Saule Omarova to be the nation’s next comptroller of the currency in September.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) criticized Democratic leadership in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published Wednesday for making false promises by setting expectations for the social spending bill and other legislation far too high.Why it matters: Sinema said that the pledges amount to dishonesty with Americans because they are made with the presumption of agreement within the party, which she believes is an unrealistic and potentially hazardous expectation in a diverse democracy.Get mark

President Biden is set to sign the $1.25 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Monday.

President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser is expressing confidence the White House’s $1.85 trillion domestic policy package will quickly pass the House this week.

Twenty years ago, when Kyrsten Sinema was a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council, she likened the practice of raising campaign cash to “bribery.”.

Twenty years ago, a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council named Kyrsten Sinema likened raising campaign cash to “bribery.” Now a first-term senator from Arizona, she no longer has such qualms. Once a self-styled “Prada socialist" labeled as “too extreme” by Arizona's Democratic Party, Sinema has found new power as a centrist in a 50-50 Senate where there are no votes to spare, forcing President Joe Biden to downsize his agenda and other Democratic ambitions.

McConnell made the remarks on an podcast appearance on Friday, where he also gave Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin "credit" for "talking about inflation."

Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in trying to navigate President Joe Biden’s big domestic vision into law.

President Joe Biden is facing a familiar challenge as he promotes his new $1 trillion infrastructure deal to the American people and tries to get the money out the door quickly for maximum impact.

President Joe Biden is hailing Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation."

Top Democrats have abruptly postponed an expected House vote on their 10-year, $1.85 trillion social and environment measure.

Republican Glenn Youngkin spent months talking to voters about his plans to roll back Democrats’ “left, liberal, progressive agenda.”.

Democrats in the House appear on the verge of advancing President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package.

The pharmaceutical industry has employed three lobbyists for every member of Congress this year.

Democrats say they have sealed a deal to lower pharmaceutical drug costs for most older Americans as part of President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.75 trillion domestic proposal.

House Democrats have added paid family and medical leave, immigration law changes and a state-and-local tax break to their $1.75 trillion social services and environmental bill.

Democrats agreed to a significant — but slimmed down — proposal to help lower prescription drug prices, bringing aboard notable holdouts on the measure, including Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

The agreement overcomes a key sticking point in ongoing negotiations over the president's domestic policy agenda.

Sen. Joe Manchin is wavering over supporting President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion policy package.

In a single week, fractious congressional Democrats have coalesced significantly around President Joe Biden’s domestic ambitions.

Two congressional aides say Democrats have made significant progress on adding compromise provisions curbing prescription drug prices to their massive social and environment package.

It’s good Democrats have so many ideas: With any single senator able to block a proposal, they've needed plenty of backup plans for Biden's agenda.

Two Democrats say party leaders are hoping for House votes as soon as Tuesday on the two pillars of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.

Democrats’ decision to drop a proposal for paid family leave from their massive social safety net and climate change package was met with disappointment and irritation by female voters in Virginia.

It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package into law.

Or it would be—if it passes.

Joe Biden set out to be a president who under-promised and over-delivered.

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who was elected in 1992 as a self described “mom in tennis shoes,” has been fighting for paid family and medical leave for decades.

President Joe Biden heads to Capitol Hill early Thursday to push his revised domestic policy bill.

President Joe Biden and Democrats are getting low marks from the public as they try to get a roughly $1.75 trillion spending package over the finish line.

President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Top Democrats say a deal is within reach on President Joe Biden's big domestic bill.

President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic” framework with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping, though scaled-back domestic policy plan.

California has paid at least $20 billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits since the start of the pandemic. Adam Beam, a California reporter for the Associated Press, joins Lana Zak on CBSN to discuss.

President Joe Biden and Democrats are racing to wrap up talks before the president departs this week for overseas global summits.

Ana Navarro has some strong feelings about Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's choice of apparel — and she doesn't care who is "triggered" by them.

Unemployment benefits can be essential if you have lost your job and need financial support. Here are expert tips to help you maximize your unemployment checks.

Democrats are debating a new plan to finance their massive spending legislation: taxing the wealth of billionaires.

Democratic lawmakers are considering a billionaire income tax to help pay for President Biden's agenda. CBS News reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice joined CBSN's Tanya Rivero with more on how this tax would work.

"I'm supporting basically that everyone should pay their fair share," Manchin said, allowing wiggle room. He represents a state with no billionaires.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, already in the national spotlight for becoming a roadblock to President Joe Biden's economic and social agenda, caused a stir Tuesday for donning a denim vest while presiding over the Senate.

The Arizona Democratic senator has been hard to pin down, but her moderate stance is forcing progressives in her party to make concessions.

President Joe Biden and progressive Democrats have failed to get the votes for a proposed major overhaul of the tax code and are now being forced to cut the size and scope of their planned infrastructure and social welfare legislative package as well.

Reps. Henry Cuellar of Laredo and John Katko of New York have pushed to improve the...

A new video emerged Monday that showed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., being confronted by a woman who identified herself as a constituent who walked closely next to the senator, prompting Sinema to say, “Don’t touch me,” according to reports.

The Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for President Joe Biden’s social services and climate change plan is quickly running into criticism.

President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers.

To help pay for his big economic and social agenda, President Joe Biden is looking to go where the big money is and that's billionaires.

Lawmakers are trying to form a new tax proposal for wealthy people and billionaires as previous proposals fell through.

As the White House pushes for an agreement, some progressives are expressing dismay at the changes demanded by Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

President Joe Biden says he feels “very positive about reaching a deal on his big domestic policy bill.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill.

Democrats are working to reach consensus on a framework for Mr. Biden's domestic policy agenda.

President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have edged close to a deal on their big package of social services and climate change strategies.

The administration wants to tax the 700 richest Americans to help pay for the president's social spending taxes.

The White House says President Joe Biden will lay out his thinking in the coming weeks about moving to “fundamentally alter” the filibuster or even eliminate the legislative roadblock that empowers the Senate minority.

Will the president’s party pass major legislation before the midterm elections?

Pres. Biden addressed some of his administration's problems and successes in a town hall Thursday.

Pres. Biden addressed some of his administration's problems and successes in a town hall Thursday.

As Democrats pare down the president's $3.5 trillion spending plan, two items important to his climate goals could be off the table.

Mr. Biden appears to be more open than he's been in the past to changing the filibuster, but any change isn't likely to happen soon.

Arizona Sen. Sinema's opposition to increasing taxes on corporations forced Democrats to rework how they pay for their spending bill. But negotiators have come up with an alternative they agree on.

A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats have edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation.

The White House and Democrats are hurriedly reworking key aspects of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion domestic policy plan.

Mr. Biden appears to be more open than he's been in the past to changing the filibuster, but any change isn't likely to happen soon.

Nine Republicans joined Democrats Thursday in voting to refer criminal contempt charges against Steve Bannon. As Kris Van Cleave reports, the former Trump aide refused to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the deadly Capitol insurrection. Then, Nicholas Wu, a congressional reporter for Politico, joins CBSN's Lana Zak with more on the next steps along with the latest on negotiations over Democrats' social spending bill.

A new report from the organization Human Rights First found thousands of migrants and asylum seekers expelled to Mexico by the U.S. were subjected to kidnappings and other violent attacks. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joined CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss.

Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema faced more defections Thursday from the broad base of support she built to win her seat in 2018 when five members of her veterans advisory council resigned over her opposition to parts of President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan and refusal to ditch the Senate filibuster. The resignations come as progressive groups are ratcheting up their pressure on the first-term moderate, who along with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is seen as holding back progress as Biden sharply scales back his once-$3.5 trillion plan to win their support. Democrats need their support to push the legislation through the 50-50 Senate.

The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion proposal for expanding social services and tackling climate change.

For the third time this year, Senate Democrats tried to pass sweeping elections legislation that they tout as a powerful counterweight to new voting restrictions in the states.